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Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 14: camp Lawton. (search)
rings or other indications of an inhabited country. We did not think we could get through such a country by night, but it looked as though there would not be much danger in daylight. About three o'clock we came to Millen Junction, where the Augusta road intersects the Savannah & Macon railroad. Our train switched off and ran up the Augusta road two or three miles, to where the rebels had established a new prison, called by them, Camp Lawton, but known to us as the Millen prison. This pAugusta road two or three miles, to where the rebels had established a new prison, called by them, Camp Lawton, but known to us as the Millen prison. This prison was built on the same general plan as the one at Andersonville, but it was much better every way. It was a stockade pen, enclosing about twenty-five acres. Wall, sentry-boxes, and dead-line as at Andersonville. The water was clear and comparatively pure, as there was no camp on the creek above the pen. The trees along this creek were left for shade, making probably three acres of timber. The creek went murmuring through this forest shade, following its own winding channel for about