Confederate POW Camp Discovered

Archaeologists excavating a Confederate prison stockade in east Georgia were guided by the watercolors of Union cartographer Robert Knox Sneden, an inmate at the short-lived camp. Kevin Chapman, a graduate student at Georgia Southern University, uncovered a line of postholes that marked the wall of the 42-acre stockade. The wall, buried under six feet of fill in the 1930s, lay just 50 yards from the park's main parking lot. Instead of the light scatter of artifacts they had expected, they found a wealth of material--forks and spoons, lead minie balls, a bronze tourniquet buckle, a picture frame, a pipe, silver jewelry, a uniform button from New York, and German and Austrian coins that probably belonged to immigrants serving in the Union army.