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Archaeologists Find Civil War Camp in Georgia

By Kathryn YaoAug 29th 2010 – 9:15AM
Suzanne Oliver, Georgia Southern University / AP

Suzanne Oliver, Georgia Southern University / AP

(Aug. 29) -- A corroded bronze buckle used to fasten tourniquets. A game token bearing George Washington's profile. A makeshift tobacco pipe. These are just a few of the Civil War artifacts archaeologists found when they uncovered the site of a Confederate prison camp in southeastern Georgia. Although historians knew...

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A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of combatants captured by their enemy in time of war, and is similar to an internment camp which is used for civilian populations.

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