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American Revolutionary War patriots of the Old Camden District included Surgeon Isaac Alexander, Surgeon James Martin, Captain Benjamin Carter, Lieutenant Joseph Brevard, and Privates Thomas Ballard, Samuel Mathis, and Archelaus Watkins, who are buried in marked graves in Quaker Cemetery, while other patriots were buried in known and unknown graves. Many patriots were executed in Camden during 1780 - 1781. Hundreds of patriots from Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia died in Kershaw County in the Battle of Camden on 16 Aug 1780 and at Hobkirk Hill on 25 April 1781. Enlisted soldiers killed in battle were left on the fields and are buried in graves known only to God.
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