12 Patriot Soldiers Given Proper Funeral 243 Years After Revolutionary Battle Of Camden, ‘Boys Only In Age’
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12 Patriot Soldiers Given Proper Funeral 243 Years After Revolutionary Battle Of Camden, ‘Boys Only In Age’

Leif Le Mahieu

CAMDEN, S.C. — On April 22nd, in the middle of a longleaf pine tree forest just north of Camden, South Carolina, Apache helicopters thundered over a large crowd gathered in front of 13 wooden coffins.

It was a grand gesture to honor the lives of a handful of revolutionary-era soldiers whose remains were recently discovered. 242 years earlier, two armies met at the Battle of Camden in a fierce contest where the cries of teenage soldiers could be heard as the American colonies struggled to gain independence.

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