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On this date in 1864 the remaining staff and prisoners were evacuated from Camp Lawton to Savannah. In Savannah, the POWs were exchanged/paroled or sent to prisons in the Carolinas. About 5000 were loaded on trains and sent to Blackshear, GA where they would spend about 2 weeks. From Blackshear they were sent to Thomasville, where again they spent about 2 weeks. They were then marched to Albany and loaded on trains and returned to Andersonville.