Camp Lawton

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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.

Camp Lawton

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