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So what did they find at Camp Lawton?
Speculation will end Wednesday when findings are revealed at Civil War prison site
W CAMP LAWTON MAP
This map of Camp Lawton was drawn by Private Robert Knox Sneden, who was a prisoner at the camp in 1864. This map appears in Images of the Storm, which consists of a diary kept by Sneden during the war and many drawings and topographical maps by Sneden like this one.
When Mike Mull, a lover of and expert in the history of the Confederacy and Civil War, first heard about an exciting new find in the archeology dig at Magnolia Spring State Park, he knew the rumors would start flying. Excavations at the Camp Lawton Civil War prison site have been ongoing for several years inside the park near Millen. The work has been handled mostly by Georgia Southern professors and students under the watchful eye of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
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