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Point Lookout State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve occupying ... of the 50,000 soldiers held in the army prison camp at Lookout Point, ...
The Hammond Gazette was a weekly newspaper that was first published on November 17, 1862 in Point Lookout, Maryland.The paper was initially published by Charley Greer. George Everett, White Commander of Company D in the 38th United States Colored Troops (USCT) stationed at Point lookout, eventually succeeded him and published the paper for the majority of its
Waggoner, Jesse. "The Role of the Physician: Eugene Sanger and a Standard of Care at the Elmira Prison Camp," Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences (2008) 63#1 pp 1–22; Sanger reportedly boasted of killing enemy soldiers. Wheelan, Joseph (2010). Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison. New ...
Point Lookout Light is a lighthouse that marks the entrance to the Potomac River at the ... and soon Camp Hoffman, a vast prison camp, was built, eventually holding ...
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 ...
Law enforcement officials are searching for 50-year-old James Thompson of Texas who is missing and believed to have walked away from a prison camp at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth on Thursday.
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 ...
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