The Camden 14: Naming America’s First Soldiers
7/3/202623 min
In a special edition of “Start Here,” the team travels to the site of the 1780 Battle of Camden. After spending years discovering and unearthing remains of the fallen, researchers have finally given the soldiers a proper burial – and in a first-of-its-kind development, have been able to identify one by name.
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Brad Mielke· Host0:21
Tomorrow is July 4th, exactly 250 years after the Founding Fathers declared independence from Britain. I feel like to a lot of Americans, that sounds like the end of the American Revolution, right? It's easy to forget the war, though, continued for seven years afterwards, more battles, more blood, more sacrifice. One of the reasons that's easy to forget is because this war was largely fought by anonymous men. Yes, of course we know the stories of George Washington and the heroes who won battles, but this was also a war fought by soldiers who never made it home, whose names history never recorded. So today, we're gonna do something a little different. As most of us celebrate this country's 250th birthday with fireworks and barbecues, some are literally digging into stories that have lain underneath Revolutionary War battlefields for centuries, and just recently, some of those stories came to the surface. A few weeks ago, the Start Here team traveled down to Columbia, South Carolina, where we found ourselves escaping the heat for a history lesson.
Julie Strickland· Guest1:29
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