Sherman broke her heart, twice

Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson was 34 years old, over 6 feet tall, handsome, brilliant, kind, charming, and universally well-liked when he took command of the Army of the Tennessee in March 1864. Gen. Wm. T. Sherman granted his request

650 Buried Here

CAMP LAWTON, near Millen, Georgia October - November, 1864 Confederate prison camp for captured Union soldiers       In the summer of 2010, near Millen, Georgia, a team of Georgia Southern University archeology students discovered artifacts on the site of a 42-acre Civil War prison,