BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Point Lookout Confederate Memorial Park

MD -- Point Lookout Confederate Memorial Park:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
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
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 founder of the Point Lookout POW Descendants Organization (PLPOW), Patricia Buck, contacted everyone who had land touching any part of the Pt. Lookout Cemetery, or within seeing distance of the property and asked them to please either donate, rent or sell some land to us. One lady was interested in perhaps selling the plot next to the cemetery; however, several years and many delays were put before us. But, our now CMPI chairman, Jim Dunbar, stayed in touch with the owner and the deal was finally sealed on the anniversary date of Appomattox, April 9, 2003.

The property for Confederate Memorial Park is adjacent to the Point Lookout Cemetery located in Scotland, Maryland. Located on State Route 5, the property is a corner lot also on the road to the original site of Point Lookout POW Camp for Confederates. Click here for the story about the land purchase and what we did on that day to erect a sign, flag pole, etc.

Rick Griffin, who has labored tirelessly to regain our constitutional right to fly our ancestors’ flag in the cemetery, gave our project its new name, Confederate Memorial Park. We raised over half of the money for our purchase through generous private donations of individuals and organizations, then borrowed the rest from a bank. Less than three months later, we were able to pay off our debt! ...

[After purchasing the land, the group determined what the park itself would look like:]

Confederate Memorial Park will consist of a POW Statue to honor the prisoners of Point Lookout Prison and landscaping consisting of the CSA state flags / trees / flowers, memorial benches, and plaques. Near the center of the circle will fly atop a 50' pole, the Confederate Battle Flag - the flag these men and women fought for, was imprisoned for and died for. ...

The walkway leading to the entrance will be lined with the three CSA national flags, the Bonnie Blue Flag, the National Flag of Scotland, and the Point Lookout POW flag. On each side of the entrance will be placed Maryland’s state and St. Mary’s County flags. In front of these, two stones from the original monument in the Pt. Lookout Cemetery will be placed and inscribed with the meaning of Confederate Memorial Park. The St. Mary's County flag was donated to CMP by Commissioner Larry Jarboe and this flag will fly to honor all the military/civilian men/women/children of St. Mary's County who were imprisoned in Point Lookout as American POW Veterans. ...

The above is from http://confmemparkinc.plpow.com
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