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Confederate Prison Camp Historical Marker
- Confederate Prison Camp State
Historical Marker
- Located on Ga. 203 just north of Blackshear, Ga.
(Text)
CONFEDERATE PRISON CAMP
Here stood a Confederate prison
camp for Union prisoners of war. Established about November 18,
1864, the camp held more than five thousand prisoners until the
first week of January, 1865. These prisoners were brought here
from camps at Millen and probably from Andersonville to avoid
the possibility of their being liberated by Sherman's troops
who were then moving southward. The camp was at one time under
the command of Colonel H. Forno. Other prisoners from Millen
were transferred to camps at Savannah and Florence.
113-2 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1955
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