Post by Lawtonka on Apr 8, 2006 16:19:29 GMT -5
If you ever travel through central South Carolina, take a little time off the road to visit Camden, a very little known but well preserved battlesite from the Revoluntionary War. There is also some great Civil War History nearby where the Battle of Boykin's Mill was fought at the end of the war.
Marker at Battle of Camden site, north of Camden just above Saunders Creek
General view of battlefield, it is mostly on high groung bounded by swamp land of the east and west and by Saunders Creek to the South
Granite Marker showing where General Dekalb was mortally wounded
A few of the pieces of artillery displayed in the museum back in Camden near Interstate 20 on Hwy 521
Back at the Museum, there is a complete reconstruction of General Joseph Kershaw's house rebult on the exact site as the original. The partial stockade wall is reconstructed also to show the boundries of the old town of Camden during the period. There were only about 80 buildings there at the time. This was a British Stonghold. Andrew Jackson and his brother were in jail and he (Andrew) watched the battle of Hobkirk's Hill from a knot hole in his jail cell.
Marker at Battle of Camden site, north of Camden just above Saunders Creek
General view of battlefield, it is mostly on high groung bounded by swamp land of the east and west and by Saunders Creek to the South
Granite Marker showing where General Dekalb was mortally wounded
A few of the pieces of artillery displayed in the museum back in Camden near Interstate 20 on Hwy 521
Back at the Museum, there is a complete reconstruction of General Joseph Kershaw's house rebult on the exact site as the original. The partial stockade wall is reconstructed also to show the boundries of the old town of Camden during the period. There were only about 80 buildings there at the time. This was a British Stonghold. Andrew Jackson and his brother were in jail and he (Andrew) watched the battle of Hobkirk's Hill from a knot hole in his jail cell.