[Leica] ING: Point Lookout

[luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll)]

Wonderful!
Luis
 

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De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En nombre de
Bernard Quinn
Enviado el: lunes, 05 de noviembre de 2007 3:42
Para: Leica Users Group
Asunto: [Leica] ING: Point Lookout


This is Point Lookout State Park. That's Point Lookout Light in the
distance. It is located where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay.
Lighthouses are traditionally supposed to look rustic, sturdy, and scenic.
Point Lookout light just doesn't. Perhaps it is just as well. During the
Civil War the narrow peninsula on which it sits was simultaneously a Union
Hospital, a prison for confederate soldiers, and a camp for slaves who had
escaped from the South. The conditions in which the Blacks lived were beyond
belief. There was no housing for them. They survived by digging holes about
five feet deep in the ground. They would cover these holes as best they
could. They would make an opening several feet wide. They would crawl
through this hole to get into their shelter, not unlike the way an animal
goes into its burrow. Given that, the state of medicine at the time, and the
general conditions in civil war prison camps the suffering which people
endured here is beyond what I know how to measure. Not much is left of the
original buildings. That may be just as well. As you walk around the grounds
the suffering which happened here is still almost palpable.

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Comments and criticism welcome.

Barney

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