Image: "Camp Lawton" at Millen, Georgia - about 8,600 prisoners confined here 14th November 1864. LOC gvhs01.vhs00054 (cropped)

Description: 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." Additional Information- Top hand written line at top of map (in faded blue ink) says, "Unknown - 491 were buried in a trench near the R Road 2000 yards from Stockade" and the second line below says, "450 were buried in 2 trenches near Hospitals" and below that line (to the right) it says, "450 Prisoners here buried"
Title: "Camp Lawton" at Millen, Georgia - about 8,600 prisoners confined here 14th November 1864. LOC gvhs01.vhs00054 (cropped)
Credit: https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00054/
Author: Sneden, Robert Knox
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