Point Lookout Prison Camp
Point Lookout is located on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. It was a converted Union Army Hospital and opened as a prison after the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863. The pictures above display the compound of the camp. It was supposed to house about 10,000 prisoners, but by June of 1864 it held about 20,000.
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