Left this morning at
11 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.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 63
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