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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Point Lookout, Md. (Maryland, United States) or search for Point Lookout, Md. (Maryland, United States) in all documents.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 21 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 36 (search)
Prison life at Point Lookout.
[from prosperity, press and Reporter, July, 1891.] By Rev. J. B. Traywick.
As to the question as to the comparative treatment of prisoners in Northern and Southern prisons is up and as you have requested me, I will give some incidents of my experience at Point Lookout, Maryland.
It will certainly show that all the sinners were not in charge of Southern prisons.
There is one fact I wish to note, and that is the men at the front, as a rule, were kind and tho September 22, 1864.
After some delay at Winchester, Harper's Ferry and Baltimore, I was carried by steamer to Point Lookout, Maryland, arriving there on October 3, 1864.
On entering the prison we were divested of everything except personal wear dorse all I have written, and who has several times asked me to write it out for the papers.
I was paroled, and left Point Lookout February 18, 1865.
While free from any special sickness, I was reduced sixty-five pounds in weight, purely for want
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)