Revolutionary War Memorial
This memorial is dedicated to American Revolutionary War heroes who were patriots of the Old Camden District … Markers are for Patriots buried in graves known and unknown … Patriots in marked graves in Quaker Cemetery are: Surgeon Isaac Alexander, Surgeon James Martin, Capt Benjamin Carter, Lt Joseph Brevard, and Privates Thomas Ballard, Samuel Mathis, Archelaus Watkins … Many patriots were executed in Camden during 1780 - 1781. Those known appear on the monument … Hundreds of patriots from Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia died in Kershaw County in “The Battle of Camden” 16 Aug 1780 and “Hobkirk Hill” 25 April 1781. Enlisted soldiers killed in battle were left upon the fields and are buried in graves known only to God.
Marker is at the intersection of Meeting Street and Church Street, on the left when traveling west on Meeting Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
