CNN posted this interesting story today about what some folks have called, “one of the most significant Civil War discoveries in decades.”
Some students from Georgia Southern have found what may be, “the exact location of a stockade and dozens of personal artifacts belonging to” Union Prisoners at Camp Lawton, a Confederate prison that housed about 10,000 men. Camp Lawton was built to replace the notorious Andersonville Prison, but it wasn’t much of an improvement.
The article mentions Pvt. Robert Knox Sneden, a Union map maker who painted some watercolors of the prison and kept a journal of his experiences at Camp Lawton. A quick search of Footnote turned up this copy of one of Sneden’s maps of Camp Lawton: