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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWCD_attack-at-dawn_Camden-SC.html
Following the tradition of positioning the best troops at the commander's right hand, Gen. Horatio Gates placed one brigade of Continentals on his right, and held the second in reserve, leaving inexperienced militia on his left. Since Cornwallis a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWCB_shots-in-the-dark_Camden-SC.html
Under a full moon in the dead of night, the advance guards of the two armies came upon each other on the Great Wagon Road. Britain's Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton, marching from Camden with his dragoons, promptly charged the American cavalry of Col. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWC7_all-the-kings-men_Camden-SC.html
The force fighting under Gen. Charles, Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Camden was as diverse as the foe they faced. At the core of the British Army were the "regulars." That may not sound threatening, but these highly trained professionals were c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWC4_meet-the-american-army-of-1780_Camden-SC.html
The Americans who fought the Revolutionary War reflected colonial society: an array of backgrounds, ages and skill. Professional soldiers mixed with non-military tradesmen, idealistic Europeans shared battlefields with illiterate farmers, Native A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWC0_the-road-to-battle_Camden-SC.html
See that flat depression in the ground? That's the surviving imprint of the Great Wagon Road, a route used by thousands of settlers from the 1740s to the early 1800s.
The road began in Philadelphia, carrying Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish and Mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW8P_the-de-kalb-monument_Camden-SC.html
(Front Face):To De KalbHere lie the remains of Baron De Kalb, German by birth, but in principle, citizen of the world.
(Left Face):He was second in command in the battle fought near Camden, on the 16th August, 1780, between the British and Amer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0O_midway-high-school_Cassatt-SC.html
(Front) Midway School, established on this site in 1923 with grades 1-11, served Cassatt and other rural areas in Kershaw County near U.S. Hwy. 1 from Little Lynches River to the Shepard community. The high school later added grade 12, then closed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU3P_burwell-boykin-battle-of-boykins-mill_Rembert-SC.html
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Burwell Boykin, a 15 year old volunteer with the South Carolina Home Guard and son of Col. Alexander Hamilton Boykin, fought at this site defending his home on April 18, 1865.
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SC Home Guard 9th Ky Mi 53rd Ala. Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIT0_pleasant-hill-baptist-church_Bethune-SC.html
[Front]The first Baptist Church in this area of Kershaw County was founded in a wooded area on Mecklenburg Road, two miles south of Lynchwood, now the town of Bethune. The church was founded in 1852 by Ellie Copeland and established on land owned …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMISW_wests-crossroads-donald-h-holland-house_Cassatt-SC.html
(Front):This crossroads, long owned by the West family, is the junction of the Georgetown and Porter Bridge Roads, both of which appear on Robert Mills's 1825 Atlas of S.C. In early 1865 opposing forces camped nearby as Gen. M.C. Butler's Confeder…