- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Camp Lawton
- Date of Original:
- 1864
- Subject:
- Prisons--Georgia--Millen
Confederate States of America. Army--Prisons
Prisoners of war--Georgia--Millen
Military prisons--Georgia--Millen
Wooden fences--Georgia--Millen
Camp Lawton (Prison stockade)
Men--Georgia--Millen
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Jenkins County, Millen, 32.80405, -81.94928
- Medium:
- drawings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Union prisoners were transferred from Andersonville Prison to Camp Lawton in Millen after Sherman's attack on Atlanta in 1864. Designed to hold 40,000 inmates, the population of Camp Lawton only reached around 10,000.
Drawing of the prison at Camp Lawton in Millen, Georgia. Many men stand within the wooden walls surrounding the prison. Union prisoners were transferred from Andersonville Prison to Camp Lawton after Sherman's attack on Atlanta, Georgia in 1864. Designed to hold 40,000 inmates, the population of Camp Lawton only reached around 10,000. By all accounts the prison at Millen was infinitely better than Andersonville. Andersonville, a Confederate prison in Sumter County, Georgia, had the highest mortality rate of any Civil War prison. Nearly 13,000 of the 45,000 men who entered the stockade died there, chiefly of malnutrition. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-war-prisons/m-8079/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-war-prisons
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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