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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1864., [Electronic resource]. 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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Prison life at the North.
The prisoners who returned from Point Lookout on the last flag of truce all declare their intention to give their lives up before they will again test the humanity of a Yankee prisoner.
The fare at Point Lookout is oPoint Lookout is one degree removed from starvation.
The guard there has recently been reinforced by the 36th U. S. "colored infantry." These negroes are reported by our men to be far more humane sentinels than their white brethren — not taking advantage of the pris cing his gun almost against his head, blew his brains out.--When the prisoners were transferred from Fort Delaware to Point Lookout, 950 were placed in the hold of a little steam tug, with but one hatch left open.
Ten of them died of suffocation beft open.
Ten of them died of suffocation before the end of the voyage.
Among the returned prisoners is a son of the Rev. Dr. Doggett, of this city, who lost an arm. Private Terril, of the 2d company Richmond Howitzers, died at Point Lookout.