- Collection:
- Civil War Maps
- Title:
- "Camp Lawton" at Millen, Georgia : about 8,600 prisoners confined here 14th November 1864.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Sneden, Robert Knox, 1832-1918
- Publisher:
- [1861-1865]
- Date of Original:
- 1864-11-14
- Subject:
- White, Isaiah Henry, 1838-1907
Confederate States of America.--Army--Surgeons
Camp Lawton (Prison stockade)
Military prisons--Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps
Millen (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Jenkins County, Millen, 32.80405, -81.94928
- Medium:
- maps (documents)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Description:
- 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.
NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary page.
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."
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Robert Knox Sneden scrapbook (Ms5:7 Sn237:1), Virginia Historical Society.
In the Robert Knox Sneden diary, 1861-1865 (v. 6, p. 139). - Local Identifier:
- 2002-02-08t14:57:31
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00054/
- IIIF manifest:
- https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00054/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 map : pen-and-ink and watercolor ; 13 x 16 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Virginia Historical Society
- Rights:
-
