Camden

A village in Kershaw Co., S. C. Gen. Gates was defeated here August 16, 1780, by Lord Cornwall is, and April 25, 1781, Gen. Greene was here defeated by Lord Rawdon. During the civil war this place was captured, February 24, 1865, by the Federal forces under Gen. Sherman, and the bridge over the Wateree, the railroad depot, and a considerable quantity of stores, etc., burned by the 15th Corps.