"Archeologists discover Confederate POW camp in Georgia" by Russ Bynum, Associated Press | August 19, 2010
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Preserved for nearly 150 years, perhaps by its own obscurity, a short-lived Confederate prison camp began yielding treasures from the Civil War almost as soon as archeologists began searching for it in southeastern Georgia....
Georgia officials say the discoveries, announced yesterday, were made by a 36-year-old graduate student at Georgia Southern University who set out to find Camp Lawton for his thesis project in archeology.
And the newspaper picked it up!
He stunned experienced pros by not only pinpointing the site, but also unearthing rare artifacts from a prison camp known as little more than a historical footnote to the path of General William T. Sherman’s devastating march from Atlanta to Savannah....
Camp Lawton imprisoned more than 10,000 Union troops after it opened in October 1864 to replace the infamously hellish war prison at Andersonville.
Did they WATERBOARD people and threaten their children?
But it lasted barely six weeks before Sherman’s army arrived in November and burned it....
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Also see: Slow Saturday Special: Raise the Confederacy!
Obama the Racist
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