L Depot For Prisoners of War. The creation date is not know and the internet provider of this picture would like to know if anyone can provide information on it origin. If you know more about its origin, please drop us an e-mail note. We have an answer kindly provided by an internet browser. According to Mr. Edwin W. Beitzell's book this picture is a lithograph of Point Lookout made between July 1863 - Feb. 1864.
Today there are monuments erected to the men who died while held at Point Lookout.
A common marker contains an alphabetized list of those who died. The marker was erected by the State of Maryland in the 1930s. Civil War Monument St. Mary's County, Maryland Prisoners Project Listing Over the years much of the Point Lookout site and grave yards were lost to the waters and sands of the bay. The grave sites were move several times after 1866. The present cemetery site is Scotland.