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    "label": "Map of Andersonville, Sumter Co., Georgia",
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    "title": "Map of Andersonville, Sumter Co., Georgia",
    "description": "Manuscript map in ink showing Andersonville and the military prison and graveyard used by the confederates during the American Civil War.",
    "date": "[\"[1865]\"]",
    "year": 1865,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:ht2503558",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_014623",
    "creators": [
        "Carleton, George W."
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    ],
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        "Andersonville National Historic Site (Ga.)--Maps",
        "United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps"
    ],
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        "North and Central America",
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        "Manuscript map in ink showing Andersonville and the military prison and graveyard used by the confederates during the American Civil War.",
        "Relief shown by contours.",
        "Carleton sent to Andersonville in May 1865 to produce a topographical survey of the prison and its surroundings, and submitted map and field notes to Major General H. Wilson before his release in June 1865."
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