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Camp Lawton, or the Millen Prison
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Camp Lawton, or the Millen Prison

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."

Date
November 14, 1864
Mapmaker / publisher
Sneden, Robert Knox
Place
Georgia
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
1,869 × 1,377 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Camp Lawton, or the Millen Prison" (November 14, 1864). Sneden, Robert Knox. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_Lawton,_or_the_Millen_Prison.jpg

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