Camp Lawton at Millen, Georgia : About 8,600 Prisoners Confined Here 14th November 1864 11-14

Old map of Georgia, Millen, United States, Virginia.

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."
Created by Robert Knox Sneden in 11-14.

• Across the bottom margin: "The Prison was located 5 miles from Millen, a town on The Central Georgia R.R. 83 miles from Savannah."
• Across the top margin: "Unknown--491 were buried in a trench near the RRoad 2000 yards from Stockade. 450 were buried in 2 trenches near Hospitals." After parolled at Camp Lawton, Sneden kept the death book for the camp surgeon and thus had access to these figures.
• This item is from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society; please contact the institution for more information.
• Under the title: "Copy of original made while a prisoner of war by R.K. Sneden, 10th Octr. 1864."
• Robert Knox Sneden scrapbook (Ms5:7 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society.
• In the Robert Knox Sneden diary, 1861-1865 (v. 6, p. 139).
• Manuscripts

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Camp Lawton (Prison Stockade)

Civil War

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Millen

Millen (Ga.)

Prisoners And Prisons

Surgeons

United States

Virginia

White Isaiah Henry

Robert Knox Sneden

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White Isaiah Henry