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WHAT'S HAPPENING
John Pumphrey
In the fall of 2022, an unknown soldier known only as 9B was exhumed from a mass grave containing the remains of five Continental soldiers killed at the Battle of Camden. On Sunday, August 13, 2023, the last Sunday before the 243rd anniversary of the battle, 9B was reinterred alongside the eleven…More
7th Regiment of Maryland
On January 6, 1777, fourteen-year-old John Pumphrey of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, traveled to Baltimore, where he placed his mark on the enlistment papers of the 7th Maryland Regiment. Just four and a half months later, on May 22, 1777, the 7th Maryland Regiment…More
De Kalb’s March South
The Maryland Line turned toward Camden marching south in one of the most grueling marches of the Revolutionary War. The journey ended just two days before the Battle of Camden, where John Pumphrey and the exhausted Maryland Line was immediately thrown into one of the war’s most decisive and devastating engagements.
Gates and the March to Camden
On the July 25, 1780, Major General Horatio Gates assumed command of the Southern Army at Cox’s Mill, North Carolina. Within two days of taking command and despite the objections of several senior officers, Gates ordered the army to take the most direct route toward Camden. This decision proved disastrous.
The Battle of Camden
The location where John Pumphrey’s remains were recovered places the center some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting on the Camden battlefield, where the 1st Maryland Brigade made its final stand before being ordered to retreat. The heroic stand of the Maryland Line who for nearly forty minutes held the British Army at bay.
