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| We need to read Senf's journal. Does anybody have a copy?
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| Obtain copies of the muster rolls for the NC militia by brigades found in the Troop Returns, Military History Section, South Carolina Historical Society, in Charleston, SC.
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Include a "help wanted" section on website.
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Help Wanted List
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Include a "To Do" list on website.
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"To Do" List
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Describe what the archaeology committee is doing, on website.
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Ask relic collectors to allow us to inventory, photograph and collect recovery locations for
the archaeology database.
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Included in Help Wanted List
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Bobby Moss provide a good bibliography of British Battle of Camden sources.
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Research new primary sources.
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Note progress here.
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| Develop a list of institutions, their locations, web addresses, their files or collection names.
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Note progress here.
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| We need to do some more work on the units at the Battle of Camden, especially the North
Carolina and Virginia militia units, company level in the Continental Regiments and the subregimental
organization of the British Army. Our goal should be to get this list down to the company level so that we
can begin to place the unity on the battlefield and develop their probable actions by time.
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Several responses
on Discussion Log (private)
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Adopt a standardized nomenclature for places on the battlefields.
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Send an investigator to the battlefield early on August 16th, 2002 to visually look at the first
light conditions to clock the time when you could actually see a man or troop movements at 200 yards.
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Develop our best estimate of the relative time for each distinct action of each unit
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Collect references on how closely these units would have displayed.
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L. Babits response.
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Amend Calvin's Battle of Camden map to depict the various units in their relative size
according to their actual manpower and area they would have covered as actually formed.
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Send a team of investigators to the battlefield before first light on August 16th, 2002 to visually look at the first light conditions to clock the time when you could actually see a man in both uniforms or uniformed troop movements at 200 yards from both sides of the battlefield. By using appropriately colored cloths, cut the size of a man, with some fixed and some moving, we should get a good idea of the time of the beginning of the day battle.
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Based on the light available to see to aim the cannon and for Col. O. H. Williams to see British troop movements described in the written reports and the time necessary for orders and troops to cover the geography, I propose that we develop our best estimate of the relative time for each distinct action of each unit relative to a time datum.
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