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  2. Point Lookout State Park - Wikipedia

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    The area got its name from its role as a lookout post, used to watch British ship movements during the War of 1812. [9]During the War of 1812 the Chesapeake Bay was a major route for British War ships, who established a naval and military base at near-by Tangier Island in Virginia for the Royal Navy under Rear Admiral George Cockburn with Fort Albion there, which constantly raided Chesapeake ...

  3. American Civil War prison camps - Wikipedia

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    Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers. From the start of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly.

  4. Richard Poplar - Wikipedia

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    During the war, Poplar was taken prisoner in 1863 or 1864 and was held for more than a year in the Point Lookout prison camp. According to writer and former Confederate officer William E. Cameron , who was later governor of Virginia , Poplar was offered his freedom if he would enlist in the Union army , but he "refused persistently, claiming to ...

  5. Category:American Civil War prison camps - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "American Civil War prison camps" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. ... Point Lookout State Park; R. Rock Island Arsenal; S.

  6. Galvanized Yankees - Wikipedia

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    The 1st U.S.V.I. [n 6] was recruited at Point Lookout prison camp between January 21 and April 22, 1864, as a three-year regiment. Assigned to the District of Eastern Virginia, Department of Virginia and North Carolina , it moved to Norfolk, Virginia , where on orders of General Grant it was relegated to provost duty there, Portsmouth, Virginia ...

  7. Point Lookout Light - Wikipedia

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    Point Lookout Light, looking from north to south. On May 3, 1825, the federal government decided that a light was needed at Point Lookout to warn ships of the shoals and to mark the entrance to the Potomac River, and appropriated $1,800 for the project. The owner, Jenifer Taylor, refused the offer of $500 for the land, though he apparently ...

  8. Maryland in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Thousands of Union troops were stationed in Charles County, and the Federal Government established a large, unsheltered prison camp at Point Lookout at Maryland's southern tip in St. Mary's County between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, where thousands of Confederates were kept, often in harsh conditions.

  9. Shohola train wreck - Wikipedia

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    The Shohola train wreck occurred on July 15, 1864, during the American Civil War on the broad gauge Erie Railroad 1 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) west of Shohola, Pennsylvania. A train carrying Confederate prisoners of war collided head-on with a coal train. Some 65 prisoners, guards, and train crew were killed.