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Point Lookout State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve occupying Point Lookout, the southernmost tip of a peninsula formed by the confluence of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The state park preserves the site of an American Civil War prisoner of war camp and the Point Lookout Light ...
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. However, from 1863 this broke down following the Confederacy's refusal to ...
Point Lookout Light. Point Lookout Light is a lighthouse that marks the entrance to the Potomac River at the southernmost tip of Maryland's western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, south of the town of Scotland in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA. The lighthouse is located in Point Lookout State Park. It is not open to the public.
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 ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Washington, Brandywine & Point Lookout Railroad (WB&PL) (originally, the Southern Maryland Railroad) was an American railroad that operated in southern Maryland and Washington, D.C., from 1918 to 1942; but it and other, shorter-lived entities used the same right-of-way from 1883 to 1965.
Point Lookout Cemetery is the prison cemetery, located on the north side of the Angola property, at the base of the Tunica Hills. [64] Deceased prisoners from all state prisons had been buried here who were not claimed and transported elsewhere by family members. [100] A white rail fence surrounds the cemetery. The current Point Lookout was ...
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
A man who escaped from a California prison camp in 2011 has been captured in New York City, officials announced Friday. Authorities said Eduardo Hernandez, 42, was arrested without incident May 20 ...