A handout made available on 18 August 2010 of a historical drawing by former Union prisoner of war Robert Knox Sneden, shows Camp Lawton, a Confederate Civil War prison camp outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA / HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
A soldier's pipe is one of the artifacts unearthed from the newly discovered Camp Lawton, a short-lived Confederate Civil War prison camp to house captured Union soldiers on 18 August 2010, outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the most significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER
The Magnolia Springs fresh water river at the discovered the site of Camp Lawton, a short-lived Confederate Civil War prison camp to house captured Union soldiers on 18 August 2010, outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the most significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER
A handout made available on 18 August 2010 of a historical drawing by former Union prisoner of war Robert Knox Sneden, shows Camp Lawton, a Confederate Civil War prison camp outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA / HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
Georgia Southern University graduate student archaeologist Heather Amaral looks for one of the stockade walls at Camp Lawton, a short-lived Confederate Civil War prison camp to house captured Union soldiers on 18 August 2010, outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the most significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER
Local residents look at some of the artifacts unearthed from the newly discovered Camp Lawton, a short-lived Confederate Civil War prison camp to house captured Union soldiers on 18 August 2010, outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the most significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER
A handout made available on 18 August 2010 of a historical drawing by former Union prisoner of war Robert Knox Sneden, shows Camp Lawton, a Confederate Civil War prison camp outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA / HANDOUT Mss5.1.Sn237.1.Vol6.0126 EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
A handout made available on 18 August 2010 of a historical drawing by former Union prisoner of war Robert Knox Sneden, shows Camp Lawton, a Confederate Civil War prison camp outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA / HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
Civil war reenactors play the parts of guards and prisoners during the announcement of the newly discovered Camp Lawton, a short-lived Confederate Civil War prison camp to house captured Union soldiers on 18 August 2010, outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the most significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER
Artifacts unearthed from the newly discovered Camp Lawton, a short-lived Confederate Civil War prison camp to house captured Union soldiers on 18 August 2010, outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the most significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/ERIK S. LESSER
A handout made available on 18 August 2010 of a historical drawing by former Union prisoner of war Robert Knox Sneden, shows Camp Lawton, a Confederate Civil War prison camp outside of Millen, Georgia, USA. Archaeologists from Georgia Southern University and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have discovered the actual site of the Camp Lawton and continue to excavate artifacts from the area. The 42-acre stockade housed some 10,000 Union POWs for about six weeks. Officials are calling the discovery the significant Civil War find in decades. EPA/UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA / HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
