File:"Camp Lawton" map on 14 November 1864, "Copy of original made while a Prisoner of War by R. K. Sneeden" near The Central Georgia Railroad and Millen, Georgia - LOC gvhs01.vhs00054 (cropped).jpg
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[edit]Description"Camp Lawton" map on 14 November 1864, "Copy of original made while a Prisoner of War by R. K. Sneeden" near The Central Georgia Railroad and Millen, Georgia - LOC gvhs01.vhs00054 (cropped).jpg |
English: Concerns a Confederate prison camp for Northern soldiers that was brand new in October 1864 when Sneden was transferred from Savannah, Ga., back inland to Camp Lawton at Millen, Ga. Sneden shows the 44-acre stockade and then the immediate area outside of the stockade where there was a Confederate camp, fort, hospital, and log residences for the Confederate officers. Also, depicted is a tent next to the house of the surgeon, Isaiah White, who parolled Sneden at Camp Lawton and made him an assistant. This tent is marked as "R.K.S. tent." |
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Title InfoField | "Camp Lawton" at Millen, Georgia : about 8,600 prisoners confined here 14th November 1864. | |||
Shelf ID InfoField | https://www.loc.gov/item/001-CABIB20003008/ | |||
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Source | https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00054/ | |||
Author | Sneden, Robert Knox | |||
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Location InfoField | United States · Georgia · Millen · Virginia | |||
Part of InfoField | Military Battles And Campaigns · American Memory · Civil War Maps · Geography And Map Division | |||
Subject InfoField | United States · Georgia · Army · Millen (Ga.) · Military Prisons · Surgeons · Virginia · Civil War · Confederate States Of America · Maps · White, Isaiah Henry · Millen · Prisoners And Prisons · Camp Lawton (Prison Stockade) · History |
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