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Sumpter Prison, Andersonville, Georgia, June 1864
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Sumpter Prison, Andersonville, Georgia, June 1864

Shows the prison with wooden fence, 18 guard towers, the famous "deadline," the north and south gates, Sweetwater Creek, "Valley of Death," fortification, batteries, and cook house. He depicts overcrowding by a blizzard of tiny dots everywhere, writing the dots stand for "Union soldiers." Date written on map: June 1863 with penciled 4 over the 3. Pen-and-ink on blue tinted note paper. Purchase, James Madison Council / Edwin L. Cox American Legacy Fund, March, 2015. Imperfect: Torn at fold lines, stained with several small holes and large central hole, and missing small sections of map along edges.

Date
1864
Mapmaker / publisher
Caulfield, Patt
Place
the United States
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
4,231 × 2,732 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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"Sumpter Prison, Andersonville, Georgia, June 1864" (1864). Caulfield, Patt. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sumpter_Prison,_Andersonville,_Georgia,_June_1864_LOC_2015587286.jpg

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