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Battle of Boykin's Mill

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On April 18, 1865, in one of the last engagements of the war, a small force of Confederate regulars and local Home Guard fought a defensive action here that delayed for a day the advance of Gen. Edward E. Potter's 2700 white and Negro Union troops, who had left Georgetown on April 5, 1865, to destroy the railroad between Sumter and Camden.
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