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| Tango01 | 08 Jul 2026 1:43 p.m. PST |
"The remains of a Continental Army soldier who died at the Battle of Camden in South Carolina on August 16, 1780, have been identified through DNA analysis. The soldier was John Pumphrey of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who was at most 18 years old when he died. He was matched to DNA from living relatives submitted to a genealogy database. The Battle of Camden was the deadliest battle in the War of Independence with 900 American soldiers killed or wounded and 1,000 taken prisoner. Today the battlefield is a historic site as well as a cemetery, as most of the killed in action were buried where they fell. The remains of 14 soldiers who died in the battle were discovered at the historic Camden Battlefield and Longleaf Pine Preserve in 2020. They were fully excavated by a team from the University of South Carolina's South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) in 2022. They had been buried with modest personal effects in the shallow graves 12-14 inches deep. Battlefield graves were typically dug by prisoners of war, and in the heat of a South Carolina August, the bodies needed to be underground as quickly as possible. The 14 individuals were found in seven graves, the largest of the graves containing the remains of five people…"
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