Scotland in St. Mary's County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Point Lookout Prison Camp
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, January 11, 2015
1. Point Lookout Prison Camp Marker
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. - Maya Angelo
Who are patient and who wait,
True and faithful to the last,
For Easter morning sky,
When wrong's rock shall roll away
From the sepulcher of right,
And the right shall rise again
In the brightness of a light
That shall never fade away.
Beneath my feet ten thousand dead-
Oh! How I loved each known and nameless one!
Above their dust I bow my crownless head
and murmur; Father, still thy will be done
Ah! Father, Thou didst deck my own loved land
With all bright charms, and beautiful and fair;
But Foeman came, and with a ruthless hand
Spread ruin, wreck, and desolation there.
Erected 2008 by the Point Lookout POW Descendents Organization.
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Sons of Confederate Veterans/United Confederate Veterans, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy series lists.
Location. 38° 4.408′ N, 76° 20.461′ W. Memorial
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Regionally, this memorial is in Southern Maryland. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, in the Mid-Atlantic, in the Tidewater, in the Chesapeake Bay Region, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies and also the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Memorial Bricks and Flagpoles (here, next to this marker); "The Bean Pot" (here, next to this marker); Capt. L. R. Peyton (here, next to this marker); Pvt. Luther Wesley Hopkins (a few steps from this marker);
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, January 11, 2015
2. Point Lookout Prison Camp Marker
More about this memorial. The first verse on this marker is from Maya Anglelo's Inauguration Poem, “On the Pulse of Morning.” The other two verses are by Father Ryan, from “The Men Who Wore Gray” and “The Prayer of the South” respectively.
Also see . . . Confederate Memorial Park. (Submitted on January 29, 2017.)
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, January 11, 2015
3. Point Lookout Prison Camp Marker
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, January 11, 2015
4. Confederate Statue
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, January 11, 2015
5. Ancestor Honor Prison Truth - DOPL Motto
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6. Dedicated
Dedicated to the memory of Confederate POW's Military & Civilian men, women and children who were incarcerated in Point Lookout Prison Camp 1863 - 1865
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, January 11, 2015
7. Erected by Point Lookout POW Descendants Orgranization
September 6, 2008
September 6, 2008
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, January 11, 2015
8. C S A
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, January 11, 2015
9. Deo Vindice
1861 - 1865
1861 - 1865
Credits. This page was last revised on April 12, 2026. It was originally submitted on January 29, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. This page has been viewed 749 times since then and 35 times this year. Last updated on January 21, 2019, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on January 29, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 7, 8, 9. submitted on January 30, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
