Maryland Teenage Revolutionary War Soldier Who Died in Battle of Camden Identified
A skull fragment, DNA and genealogical records helped identify the 14th-century remains of the Maryland private, researchers said.
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Maryland teenage Revolutionary War soldier who died in Battle of Camden identified
A Revolutionary War soldier who died at the Battle of Camden in 1780 has been identified, solving one of America’s oldest “John Doe” mysteries. The remains of Pvt. John Pumphrey of the 7th Maryland Regiment were discovered by South Carolina archaeologists at the site of the Battle of Camden. “His sacrifice is one of the reasons we can sit here today in freedom,” said Rick Wise, executive director and CEO of the South Carolina Battleground Preser…
Revolutionary War soldier identified after 246 years
Nearly 250 years after he died in the Battle of Camden, researchers identified Pvt. John Pumphrey as one of more than a dozen Continental Army John Does that were found near the battlefield. On Thursday, researchers in South Carolina announced that they confirmed the identity of one set of remains. Pumphrey, whose death was not recorded and whose identity was nearly lost to history, had been from a prominent Maryland family who enlisted in the C…
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