May 16–Left this morning at II in a tugboat, and from here packed into the Steamer S. R. Spaulding. We are now on our way to a regular prison. We got there at 8 o’clock to-night, and found it to be Point Lookout, Md., fifty miles from Belle Plain. It is in St. Mary’s County. We were drawn up in line, searched for valuables, and they taken from us, and marched to prison, one mile from the landing. There are sixteen men in each tent.
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier By Louis Léon
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