Camp Lawton

Friday, Sept. 18 is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Two ceremonies will be held by the Department of Defense and DPAA to honor our POW and MIA Americans. Let... us never forget our Prisoners of War, Missing in Action, and their families, and why their tremendous sacrifices cannot be in vain, said Kelly McKeague, DPAA's director. In preserving and protecting our freedoms and way of life, they deserve our nation’s continued perseverance and gratitude. The first ceremony will be hosted by the Honorable David L. Norquist, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and held at the Pentagon at 2 p.m. EST (8 a.m. HST). The keynote speaker will be Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The second ceremony will be hosted by Rear Adm. Darius Banaji, DPAA’s Deputy Director of Operations, and held at the DPAA facility in Hawaii at 10 a.m. HST (4 p.m. EST). The keynote speaker will be Allen Hoe, a Vietnam veteran and longtime advocate of the DPAA mission. The Defense Media Activity will livestream both ceremonies online. The D.C. event can be watched at https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/24883, and the Hawaii event at https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/24868. Both events can also be watched live here on the DPAA Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/dodpaa). We hope you can join us online for one or both of these ceremonies!

An unknown number of these men possibly ended up at Lawton, or at least transitioned through. Major Archibald Bogle, of the 35th USCT was certainly at Millen. In his own words: "When I got to Millen an officer came to me and got my name, rank, and regiment. The officer commanding at Millen, Captain Bowles, put me in the stockade again and refused to put my name on the register, saying at the same time that I should never be exchanged." It is likely some of his men made the same trip, and lived, died, and survived alongside their fellow soldiers. Their story is part of the story of Lawton, a story we continue add to with each button, each excavation into the earth. Each trowel scrape reveals a sentence from the past, written by centuries into the soil.

Our Director joins @hack_history to talk about #USCivilWar #Archaeology, and the current research at Camp Lawton! (Also available through Apple Podcast app)

Assistant Director for Curatorial Services Kimberly Guise discusses diaries kept by POWs in Europe, especially the "Wartime Logs" provided by the YMCA and distributed by the Red Cross, right into German POW camps. https://bit.ly/2B7Rw6p

Border State Residents are Now Eligible for In-State Tuition at Georgia Southern’s Three Campuses!! The University System of Georgia has approved out-of-state t...uition differential waivers to residents of Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee for Georgia Southern’s three campuses (the Armstrong Campus in Savannah, the Liberty Campus in Hinesville, and the Statesboro Campus). Check out our programs: https://cbss.georgiasouthern.edu

Congratulations to our spring 2020 graduates who officially graduated one week ago today! Spring 2020 graduates who were active in the Lab include MASS graduate... Adam Cusick and graduating anthropology majors Nellie Criswell, JC Jones, George Kase, Courtney Olig, Claire Roeker, Erin Scooler, and Stephen Tyson. We'll miss this great group of students and wish them all the best in their future endeavors! Looking to hire one of our recent graduates? Contact us at [email protected]

Our project director, Dr. McNutt, is the humble recipient of a grant from the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program, which will fund a project called "The Devil Came to Georgia: LiDAR Survey and Remote Sensing Investigation of two 1864 American Civil War Skirmishes in Jenkins/Burke Counties, GA. This will look at the Battle of Buckhead Creek and a skirmish at Lawton Station, both of involved aspects of the broader landscape around Camp Lawton. This p...roject will provide us with new information about these two Civil War battlefields, as well as filling in gaps in our knowledge about Camp Lawton itself, and the rail depot, as both are historic properties associated with both battles. This grant was made possible via support from the GSU Department of Sociology & Anthropology and Georgia Southern College of Behavioral and Social Sciences https://www.nps.gov//05-15-20-secretary-bernhardt-announce

#OTD in 1865, the steamship #Sultana exploded on the Mississippi in Arkansas. Amongst the approximately 15-1800 dead-which were mainly recently released #Union #POWs-were 10 men who had survived Lawton and the #USCivilWar We'll explore a few of these unfortunates (thread on twitter at link).