Daily national Republican., 1865-12-29
ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
- BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY AT
POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND,
HEADERS. DEPARTMENT OF WARRINGTON, !
OFFICE OF CHIBF ouARrsRMAsTsR,

hhApak DEPARTMENT OF WARRINGTON,
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wAsH1saroS, d. c., Dec, %, 1855.
VIII be sold at public auction to the highest
bidder at POINT LOOKOUT, MD, commercial
THURSDAY, January Is, 1855, at 10 O'Clock a.
m, the following Frame Buildings and other
public property at that place, viz:
UNITED STATES GENERAL HOSPITAL.
One Headquarters Building, l75 by 25 feet.
Fifteen Hospital Wards, each l75 by IS feet.
One Mess. house, $50 by 2S feet
One Guards Quarters, l67 by "a feet.
One Contraband Quarters, go by IA feet.
One Kitchen, 90 by 2 feet.
One Chapel, II by 25 feet
one Laundry, 80 by % feet, with stationary
apparatus for steam laundry and drying.
One Cow Stable. o. by IA feet
One Horse Stable, 80 by q feet.
One Wagon house, small.
One Baggage house, IS by Is feet.
One Warehouse, IS by IS feet
one Ice house, 40 by 30 feet, and 10 feet high
,Water.tank Building, II by II feet, 80 feet
high, with circular water-tank l6 feet diameter
Two Coal-houses.
One Saw house
One Forage house,
One Dead house, and
One Wash house, Of various dimensions
Also, Covered Plank Footwalks con Meeting the
s feet wide
Tho above mentioned Headquarters Building
Two stories high, lathed and plastered, and
W
few other structures are also lathed and plas-
tered.
PRISON CAMP.
Ten Hospital Wards, each l40 by IS feet
Seven Cook houses, each l43 by % feet.
One Cook house, 100 by 26 feet
each 80 by 20 feet
One Headquarters Building, 70 by a feet, with
two wings, each 40 by 20 feet.
Ono g: 8. storehouse, 90 by % feet
One Dispensary, 40 by IS feet.
Ono Chapel, 100 By "a feet
One Express Once, 30 by l6 feet.
One Guard House, (block,) so by Is feet.
One Quarters, one Once, and one Store room,
Of various dimensions.
Also, 9,lss lineal feet OF Fencing, IL feet high
$40 lineal feet Of Board Fence. 6feet high 700
lineal feet Of covered Plank Footwalks, l2 feet
wide aud 9,lS8 lineal feet Of Plank Pootwalk.
feet wide, with rail.
auARTERMAsTER's DEPARTMENT.
Ono Quarters, 100 by 2S feet
One Quarters, 100 by Il feet
One Quarters, y by % feet.
One Quarters, SO by rs feet.
Three Stables, averaging lSo by 27 feet each.
One Storehouse, 81 by 27 feet.
One smith Shop, k3 by "a feet.
One wheelwright Shop, 81 by Il feet
And four 0fices, three quarters, two Store
houses, one Oil house, one Saddlers' Shop, and
I one Mess house; Of various Dimensions.
PROPERTY.
One Post Hospital, 20 by 25 feet.
one Commissary Storehouse, 300 by IS feet
One Commissary salesroom and once, 81 by
27 feet.
One once, 27 by 10 feet
One Guard House, qOg,) 90 by so feet.
one Guard House, QogO 80 by 30 feet.
Two frame Guard Houses, small size.
One Barrack at Fort Lincoln, 80 by % feet
One Ordnance storehouse, 81 by IL feet.
One Slaughter House, 10 by "a feet, with Shed
"a by IS feet, and Out building 0 by 9feet.
One Stable, 30 BY % feet; and,
an arNa d.
sions.
One wharf OF Timber and Lumber, 40 feet loug,
aud varying in width from % /. lO2 feet
As lineal feet Of Stockade, IL feet high on Po-
tomac side, with blockhouse 20 by 30 feet four
platforms, each 10 by l2 feet, and 100 lineai feet
Of plank footwalk, O feet wide.
loI llneal feet OF Stockads on Bay side, with
block house Is by 20 feet, and three platforms Of
various dimensions, and a footwalk.
One Hose Carriage.
Twenty eight Fire Ladders.
Twenty-four Axes.
One hundred and sixteen Fire Buckets, and
Three Cooking Ranges.
One Perpetual oven.
A quantity Of Old Lumber and a number of
Pumps.
Point Lookout, situated at the junction OF the
Potomac river with Chesapeake Bay, was, be-
Tore the war, favorite watering place, and Is
well adapted for the purpose now, having ex-
eellent facilities for salt water bathing, and
hpnuuhnce VI nbn hnu game.
The buildings above enumerated under the
head OF United States General Hospital'' are |
located directly on the Point, the principal struc.
tures being arranged In a circle radating from
a common centre, and connected by covered foot |
walks, and could with moderate expense be fitted |
up properly for the accommodation OF visitors as
a steam laundry, ice house, coal house, water
tanks, and many other structures for the purpose
are ready for immediate use. An excellent op- |
portunity is also afforded to land owners in the
Vicinity, and elsewhere, to secure valuable |
fencing and building material. |
steamer will leave the Government wharyes, |
south side OF the basin, near Fardy's ship yard
Baltimore, Md, at 10 o'clock, on the morning OF
Wednesday, January II, 1865, for the transport
aton OF bidders to Point Lockout, and will be |
retained until the close Of the sale to return the
passengers to Baltimore Meals will be fur.
nished on the boat at the usual (steamboat rates.
The buildings will be sold singly, and other
property in lots to suit purchasers.
The military guard will remain In charge Of
he buildings, &c, for ffeen days after the sale,
desired, aud purchasers will be allowed twenty
lays In which to remove their property
Terms Cash, In Government funds.
NJ. |. LUDINGTON,
Colonel and Chief QuartermAster,
de9-lH Department Of Washington.