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As a grateful and reverential tribute to A noble martyr in behalf of liberty, The State Of South Carolina, Has erected this memorial to Colonel Issac Hayne, who was captured near here by the British July 6, 1781, and in violation of the Customs of War was hanged in Charles Town August 4, 1781, and whose body was buried here in his garden.
“DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI.”