Finally tonight: a Civil War discovery in rural Georgia. This week, archaeologists unveiled their remnants of a Confederate prison camp. Our story comes from a project we call NewsHour Connect.

In its six weeks' existence, between 725 and 1,330 men died at the prison camp ... almost every Civil War POW issue," said John K. Derden, professor emeritus at East Georgia College which has ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Georgia archaeologists say they’ve unearthed a number of rare Civil War artifacts after locating a Confederate prison camp known as little more than a footnote in Gen.

researchers have turned up more than 600 artifacts - from suspender buckles to railroad spikes - at the site of a Civil War prison camp in southeast Georgia that remained virtually undisturbed ...

Elmira’s Civil War prison camp operated from July 6 ... A.P. Potts of the 38th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was shot by guard Granville Garland. The bullet was removed, and Potts survived.

A Civil War prison in Georgia -- briefly the largest prison camp of the conflict -- continues to provide archaeologists with fresh artifacts, including the personal belongings of Union soldiers ...

The Union Army veteran’s illustration — measuring more than 3 feet tall and about 5 feet wide as a lithograph print — provides a bird’s-eye view of the Georgia prison in August 1864 ...

But in the Civil War, being taken prisoner was nearly as life-threatening, with contagious illnesses spreading like wildfire in unsanitary prison camps. How many prisoners died in Civil War ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Camp Douglas – once located in what is now the Bronzeville neighborhood – was once called "The North's Andersonville." How could that be, you might ask? Andersonville is ...