Oldest U.S. John Doe Investigations: Historic Project to Identify America’s First Veterans Begins This Month | PR Newswire [Video]

, /PRNewswire/ — FHD Forensics is pleased to announce a multi-agency collaboration with Historic Camden Foundation, South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust (SCBPT), Richland County Coroner’s Office (RCCO), South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources on a forensic identification project of great historic significance. As a continuation of the Camden Burials campaign begun in 2022, the company is now undertaking the genetic genealogy analysis of some of the ‘The Fourteen’ as they became known.

In 2022, skeletal remains and artifacts of 14 Revolutionary War soldiers from the Battle of Camden were unearthed after shallow battlefield burials were being exposed by many years of erosion and relic hunting activity.

“The burials were very cursory in nature,” explained SCIAA archaeologist James Legg. “Prisoners of war were likely made to bury the dead in extremely shallow graves — we’re talking 12 to 14 inches deep. Some of them even showed evidence of plow …