Annapolis: Friends of the Maryland State Archives, 2014. “I am Busy Drawing Pictures:" The Civil War Art and Letters of Private John Jacob Omenhausser, CSA. Available via Digital Collections at the following link: Maryland Manuscripts Collection MDMS 1513. At the outbreak of the civil war, the author of the chapter on general hospitals in The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion wrote.
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Maryland Manuscripts Collection, See Series 10: General Correspondence and Series 15: Military Records.Martinsville, Bulletin Print & Publishing Co., undated. The Story of a Proverb: A Fairy Tale for Grown People. Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates. Please contact the curator for additional assistance in locating related subject material, if necessary. The following are related collections that are located in the Special Collections and University Archives. “A View of Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates." OAH Magazine of History, vol. "Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery Ridge, Maryland.". The last prisoners were released from Point Lookout in July 1865 (2).Įndnotes: 1. Union soldiers worried about this issue, especially after U.S. Southern Maryland was an area with strong Southern sympathies, further magnifying tensions in camp. The camp was known for its poor living conditions, especially in 18, and about 4,000 of the total 50,000 prisoners incarcerated in camp died (1).
The camp became extremely overcrowded and by June 1864 there were over 20,000 prisoners crowded into a space of about 1,000 square feet. Originally designed to hold 10,000 men, the camp housed men in old tents instead of in permanent barracks or other structures. Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, the federal government set up a prisoner of war camp nearby and Hammond Hospital also began treating sick and injured Confederate prisoners.
Patients arrived to the hospital aboard ships. Indeed, by December, 1864, the Department of Washington (twenty-four of the twenty-five general hospitals in the Department of Washington were in the District of Columbia) had more beds (21,426) in its general hospitals than any other department in the war. Given the capital's location, it became a major point of care for Union soldiers. It was called Hammond Hospital and completed in 1863. General Hospitals in Washington and Alexandria. In 1862, a hospital was established for the Union under the direction of Captain L.C. Point Lookout is located at the southern end of the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.