Plan of Andersonville Prison, Georgia. Aug. 1864

Map shows a detailed plan of the Andersonville prison complex including locations of external defenses, guards' and officers' quarters, hospital, storehouses, cook house, and graveyard, and the use of the terrain (swamps, creeks) as boundaries.
"Made from plans by R.K. Sneden 40th N.Y. vols. while there a prisoner of war"--Page caption.
NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook image.
Relief shown by hachures.
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In the Robert Knox Sneden Scrapbook (Mss5:7 Sn237:1 p. 387).
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