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The battlefield sprawls over an area estimated to be 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Camden, South Carolina, bounded on the north by Lake Shamokin, and extending south. Flat Rock Rd (S-28-58) passes roughly through the center of the battlefield, and United States Route 521 marks its eastern boundary.
The website Documentary History of the Battle of Camden, 16 August 1780 Archived 9 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine details on its Officer Casualties at Camden Archived 2010-10-15 at the Wayback Machine page the fates of 48 Continental officers at Camden: 5 were killed, 4 died of wounds, 4 were wounded without being captured, 11 were ...
Operations to resupply the Union army at Camden were frustrated by the Battle of Poison Spring (April 18) and the Battle of Marks' Mills (April 25). The latter battle was particularly devastating, as the Confederates captured most of the supply column, numbering some 1,400 troops and more than 200 supply wagons.
Camden Battlefield On U.S. Routes 521 and 601 Site of the Battle of Camden on August 16, 1780 Carter Hill Swift Creek, Kershaw County Plantation complex, Overseers house was built in 1840 City of Camden Historic District Bounded on S by city limits, on E and W by Southern RR. right-of-way, and on N by Dicey Creek Rd.
It preserves a portion of the battlefield of the Battle of Marks' Mills fought on April 25, 1864, in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of American Civil War. The battle was part of the Camden Expedition. [3] The park is one of nine historic sites that make up the Camden Expedition Sites, a National Historic Landmark District. The battle was most ...
General Clinton turned over British operations in the South to Lord Cornwallis. The Continental Congress dispatched General Horatio Gates, the victor of Saratoga, to the South with a new army, but Gates promptly suffered one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history at the Battle of Camden (August 16, 1780). Cornwallis prepared to invade ...
Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site is a national historic district and open-air museum located in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States. Roughly 40 minutes away from Columbia , the state capitol, it is one of the state's largest tourist attractions.
Camden Battlefield; Cape Henry Memorial; Carpenters' Hall; Cherry Valley, New York; Clermont State Historic Site; Clifton House, Pennsylvania; Colonial National Historical Park; Cowpens National Battlefield; Craig House (New Jersey) Crown Point State Historic Site