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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The New Prison Depot for Yankees. (search)
The New Prison Depot for Yankees. --From all accounts it would seem that Camp Sumter, on the Southwestern Railroad, in Georgia, is destined in point of magnitude to become the Camp Chase of the Confederacy. A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph says of it: In returning from Americus on yesterday, I stopped for a short time to examine the camp, and was kindly shown around by the officers. The enclosure is a parallelogram of eighteen acres, through the centre of which runs a clear, beautiful stream, with gently sloping hills on either side. The stockade is composed of hewn pine logs, 2. feet long, with 6 feet in the ground. They are very closely set together, as well as strongly set in the trenches. A large bakery has been erected just outside the stockade. It is made of brick, and capable of making, at one time, near two thousand pounds of bread. The stockade is not completed. A sentinel walk is to be placed around near the top of the stockade. The encampment