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Archaeology student talks Camp Lawton
Graduate reflects on find at Historical Society meeting
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Georgia Southern University archaeology graduate students Heather Amaral, right, and Chris Kowalczyk screen for artifacts at the Camp Lawton site back in August 2010.
Imagine living in a dugout hole, with pine limbs stacked overhead and only a blanket over them to keep out the wind and rain. Imagine sleeping in a large brick oven because it's too cold to sleep in your tent, or "shebang," as the crude huts inside the stockade at Civil War-era Camp Lawton were called. Imagine trading brass buttons, likely some of which were taken from the uniforms of dead soldiers, for food and sometimes freedom.
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