kids encyclopedia robot

Image: "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)

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
Original image(1,919 × 1,447 pixels, file size: 443 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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."
Title: "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)
Credit: https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00054/
Author: Sneden, Robert Knox
Permission: This map is available from the United States Library of Congress's Geography & Map Division under the digital ID gvhs01.vhs00054. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No

The following page links to this image:

kids search engine