The remains of Private John Pumphrey, a teenage soldier from Maryland who fought in the Revolutionary War, have been ...

After 246 years, Pvt. John Pumphrey is unknown no more. Through DNA testing and old-fashioned sleuthing, the Maryland ...

Nearly 250 years after he died in the Battle of Camden, researchers identified Pvt. John Pumphrey as one of more than a dozen ...

The remains of a Revolutionary War soldier were identified as a young man from Maryland just before America's 250th anniversary.

Pvt. John Pumphrey was still a child when he died fighting for his country. After more than 200 years, his story is finally ...

A little more than a week before the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, one of the soldiers who made American independence possible is finally getting recognized, some 245 years after his death.

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 ...

Washington in Wilkes County has long focused on the Civil War. Now, historians want to preserve the site of the 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek. Where exactly was the battlefield?

CHILLICOTHE— As America celebrates its 250th birthday, those in Ross County are remembering the Revolutionary patriots who risked and gave their lives to make this country possible. To kick off the ...

Two hundred fifty years after he was captured in Boston Harbor during the Revolutionary War, a Scottish soldier buried in ...

With store shelves lined with food and dumpsters filled with food waste, it's hard to imagine going hungry in America due to a lack of food availability. Yet, there was a time when all this food — and ...

The Battle of Camden, in August 1780, would be his last. Pumphrey was felled there by a British musket ball, his body left to lie in a shallow grave in South Carolina. Then, in 2022, archaeologists ...