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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sue Moore. J. Kevin Chapman. Amanda L. Morrow.

In 2010 Georgia Southern University began a long term project to investigate and interpret Camp Lawton Prison near Millen, Georgia.  This prison had a short lifespan, only six weeks to construct and six weeks of occupation and yet it has proven to have one of the most intact prisoner occupation areas of any Civil War prison in the United States.  Results of work so far have demonstrated the efficacy of metal detection use in the prisoner occupation area, developed a conservation strategy for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth E. Lewis. William T. Langhorne, Jr..

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DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Pomfret.

In June, 2005 the Georgia Department of Transportation partnered with the National Park Service (NPS) to survey portions of Andersonville National Historic Site using ground penetrating radar (GPR). The NPS requested the GPR survey in an attempt to answer specific research questions related to the Civil War prison camp. Questions addressed included locating the position of the South Gate, Third Hospital, Dead House, and interior prison features. A small portion of the cemetery was also surveyed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Contract Archaeology, Inc..

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin (1,2) Bradley. Erin (1,2) Cagney. Scott (1,2) Oliver.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1993 to 1996, Delaware State Park employees conducted a shoreline survey of the quickly eroding beaches around Fort Delaware, a Civil War prisoner camp located on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River. By the mid-1990s, erosion exposed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura McAtackney.

Studies of the material culture of political imprisonment during the Northern Irish Troubles have hitherto concentrated on prisoner self-expression – especially through the creation of contraband and handicrafts - or the presencing of prison protests in external communities through wall murals. Of less aesthetic value, but highly significant as a both a signifier of compliance / dissent and criminal / political status, are the relationships between prisoners and prison-issue artefacts. From...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward M. Morin.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only David W Scheidecker. Lacee Cofer. Laura K Harrison. Brooke Hansen.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1857 and 1858 as the Seminole Tribe rebelled against the American policy of forced Indian Removal, hundreds of captive Seminole Tribal members were held by the US army in a prison camp on the Island of Egmont Key. Nearly all were non-combatants, women, children, and elders who were taken from their homes to be removed to Indian Territory out west. Egmont Key saw the last...