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Interment of 14 Patriot Soldiers in Camden, SC
April 20, 2023 @ 8:00 am - April 22, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
UPDATE from the National Society SAR Commander
Attention National Color Guardsmen and Compatriots travelling to Camden this weekend for the Ceremony honoring the 14 Revolutionary War Soldiers being reinterred at Camden Battlefield.
Color Guardsmen will rally at the Cornwallis/Kershaw House at 0730 Saturday morning for safety, flag, and uniform inspections.
Because of VIPs in the audience, all Continental Line reenactors and SAR Color Guardsmen participating have been directed to remove their flints from all our weapons. We will inspect and the National Society SAR Commander has to sign a form certifying SAR compliance that morning before we will be allowed to participate.
The funeral cortege will form beginning at 0830 and procession is now scheduled to begin at 0900. We will carry flags so bring what you got! The Georgia Society SAR flags will be making the trip.
The same rules apply for the initial 1500 afternoon ceremony for the public. Keep your flints with you in your kit bags or flint wallets. In the afternoon we can carry state and historic flags, but not US Colors. The US Army Old Guard will be the only Color Guard at the afternoon ceremony.
Sunday morning’s SAR Wreath Laying will start at 0900 and we will have weapons and flags. Color Guardsmen rally at 0800 at the Quaker Cemetery for inspections.
Semper Gumby (Always Flexible) remains the daily order for the weekend. I look forward to seeing everyone of you there for this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Please share this with others that you know are going to be there
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From the South Carolina Society SAR
INVITES YOU TO A RECEPTION AND LUNCHEON FOR: NSSAR PRESIDENT GENERAL C. BRUCE PICKETT AND HIS WIFE
RECEPTION: FRIDAY APRIL 21, 2023 – 3:00 – 5:00 P.M.
LUNCHEON: SATURDAY APRIL 22, 2023 – 12:30 P.M. (RSVP required with payment)
THE CAMDEN AMERICAN LEGION POST 17, 1333 CHESTNUT FERRY ROAD, CAMDEN, S.C., (N 34.24658 W 80.62476)
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Interment of 14 Patriot Soldiers on the Camden Battlefield in Camden, SC
Planning is underway by SCBPT and Camden area partners for re-interment ceremonies April 20-22, 2023, in Camden. “When these young men marched into the darkness on that summer night in 1780, they did so out of love for their country despite the consequences that may befall them. Our intent is to lay them to rest with the respect and honor they earned more than two centuries ago.”
Based on preliminary field examinations it is believed that twelve bodies are Patriot Continental soldiers from either Maryland or Delaware, one is likely a North Carolina Loyalist, and one served with the British 71st Regimen of foot, Fraser’s Highlanders.