Nearly 250 years after he died in the Battle of Camden, researchers identified Pvt. John Pumphrey as one of more than a dozen ...
One of them, in New York City, resulted in a rout of the Continental Army. The other, in Saratoga, New York, gave the rebels a decisive victory.
After enlisting as a teenager in the 7th Maryland regiment of the Continental Army in January 1777, Pvt. John Pumphrey marched hundreds of miles through early American history. Records show he took ...