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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 ...
American Civil War prison camps. A Union Army soldier barely alive in Georgia on his release in 1865. Both Confederate and Union prisoners of war suffered great hardships during their captivity. Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers.
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 ...
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 ...
Characteristic. Fl (2) W 5s. 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.
Sophronia E. Bucklin (1828–1902, in other sources listed as "Sophronia Brecklin") was a nurse during the American Civil War. [1] [2] From Auburn, New York, Bucklin served for almost three years of the American Civil War. [3] She worked with numerous hospitals and was present at many notable battles throughout the latter half of the war, until ...
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 ...
983 (76.7% capacity) (as of January 31, 2023 [2]) Opened. 1952. Managed by. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Warden. Dirk Williams [3] Aerial view. California Institution for Women (CIW) is an American women's state prison located in the city of Chino, [1] San Bernardino County, California, east of Los Angeles, although ...