BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Point Lookout Confederate Memorial Park

MD -- Point Lookout Confederate Memorial Park:

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1. PTLCMP_120526_42.JPG: Dedicated to the memory of Confederate POW's military & civilian men, women and children who were incarcerated in Point Lookout Prison Camp 1863 [???]-1865
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Description of Subject Matter: Descendants of Pt. Lookout POW Organization's Project

Confederate Memorial Park is a recipe for Sweet Southern Lemonade, after being handed so many lemons over the course of several years!

In 1992, our Pt. Lookout POW Descendants Org. decided that we’d like to have a meaningful project of adding an additional plaque with names that were left off of the monument in the Pt. Lookout POW Confederate Cemetery located at the southern tip of Maryland's St. Mary's County. We asked the owners of the land, the Veteran Administration, if we could erect such a plaque and they turned us down because they didn't think we could meet their rigid specifications; however, they promised that they would do this in our stead! So, we gathered and turned in names to them. They promised and they promised, year after year, for 15 years and there still isn't a plaque!

In 1994, it was suggested that we erect a POW statue to the memory of our ancestors who were imprisoned in Pt. Lookout. We asked the Veteran Administration if we could put our statue in the cemetery and they turned us down, stating that there was already one in there. Although, I have yet to find such a statue!

So, then we went to the Pt. Lookout State Park Service and asked them if we could put up our statue in the pen area and all they did was pass the buck back and forth from Pt. Lookout to Annapolis and we never did get an answer...but we got the point.

Then, in 1998 after we had been flying the Confederate Flag in the cemetery for almost five years, with the Veteran Administration’s blessings, they decided (although no one had complained) that they didn't want us doing this and took down our flag from our ancestors’ grave. So now what we have is....no plaque, no statue and no flag!

We Southerners are slow to anger, but enough is enough and ... we've had enough.

Property SoldWe needed our own property to fly the Confederate Flag and honor those brave southerners imprisoned in Point Lookout Prison. The f ...More...
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2012 photos: Equipment this year: My mainstays were the Fuji S100fs, Nikon D7000, and the new Fuji X-S1. I also used an underwater Fuji XP50 and a Nikon D600. The first three cameras all broke this year and had to be repaired. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Shepherdstown, WV, Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA), a week-long family reunion cruise of the Caribbean, another week-long family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with lots of in-transit time in Ohio and Indiana), and my 7th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including side trips to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon, etc). Ego strokes: I had a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. I had a photograph of the George Segal San Francisco Holocaust memorial used as the cover of Quebec Francais (issue 165). Not being able to read French, I'm not entirely sure what the article is about but, hey! And I guess what could be considered to be a positive thing, my site is now established enough that spammers have noticed it and I had to block 17,000 file description postings for Viagra and whatever else.. Number of photos taken this year: just below 410,000.
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