Daily national Republican., 1866-01-13
ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
- BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY AT
POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND.

HEADoR's. DEPARTMENT oP WASHINGTON,
OFFICE OF CHIEP ouARrRRxAsTRR,
WAsHINaTos, d. c., Dec, %, 1885.
VIII be sold at public auction to the highest
bidder st POINT LOOKOUT, ND, commencing
THURSDAY, January Is, 1885. at 10 o'clock a.
m, the following Frame Buildings and other
UNITED STATES GkNERAL HOSPITAL.
One Headquarters Building, lT5 by Is feet.
p pitesn Hospital wards, each l75 by % feet
One Guards Quarters, 1857 by "a feet
One Contrabaud Quarters, 90 by IA feet
One Kitchen, 80 by 2S feet.
One Chapel, IT by Is feet
One Laundry, 90 BY % feet, with stationary
Engine, Locomotive Boiler, and all the necessary
apparatus for steam laundry aud drying.
One Cow Stable 81 by Il feet.
oue Horse Stable, 90 by 81 feet.
One Wagon house, small.
One Baggage house, IS by 2J feet.
One Warehouse, 50 by Is feet,
One lea house, 40 by 30 feet, and 10 feet high
Water.tank Building, II by II feet, 80 feet
Two Coal houses.
One Saw -house.
One Forage. house.
One Dead house, and
One Wash -housa, Of various dimensions
Also, Covered Plank Footwalks Connecting the
s feet wide.
The above mentioned Headquarters Building
the fifteen Hospital Wards, the Mess house, and
few other structures are also lathed aud plas-
tered.
PRISON CAMP.
Ten Hospital Wards, each I40 by Is feet.
seven Cook houses, each l43 by ~ feet.
One Cook house, 40 by 20 feet
One Cook house, l4o BY IS feet, with two wings,
two WINGS each 40 by 20 feet. "''"
One g. 8. storehouse, 90 by "a feet
One Dispensary, 40 BY ss feet.
One Chapel, 100 by "a feet.
One Express Once, 80 by 10 feet
One Guard House, Cioek, J SO by Is feet.
Of various Dimensions.
Also. Slss liusai feet Of Fencing, l2 feet high
$40 llneal feet OF Board Fence, Q feet high 700
iineal feet OF covered Plank Pootwalks, Il feet
wide and Q, lsS lineal feet Of Plank Pootwalks, 4
feet wide, with rail.
aIARTERMAsTER,s DEPARTMENT.
One Quarters, 100 by 2s feet.
ons Quarters, 100 by II feet.
One Quarters, 70 by % feet.
One Quarters, 80 by rs feet.
Three Stables, averaging ls9 by 27 feet each.
One Storehouss, 81 by 27 feet.
One smith Shop, 69 by "a feet.
One Wheelwright Shop, OF by IA feet.
And four omees, three quarters, two Store
houses, one oil-house, one saddlers' shop, and
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS AND OTHER
PROPERTY.
One Post Hospital, 10 by IS feet
One Com missary storehouse, 900 by IS feet.
n feet.
one Once, 81 by 10 feet.
One Guard House, qog,) so by 80 feet.
one Guard House, QogJ so by % feet.
Two frame Guard Houses, small size
One Barraek at Fort Lincoln, so by % feet.
One Ordnance Storehouse, - by l2 feet
One Slaughter House, 10 by "a feet, with Shed
a by y fsst and Out; building by sfset.
Ten Kitchens, Quarters, &c, Of various dimen-
sions.
One wharf Of Timber and Lumber, 40 feet long,
and varying In width from % to lO2 feet
2iS lineal feet Of Stockade, IL feet high on Po.
tomae side, with blockhouse 20 by 80 feet, four
platforms, each l6 by IL feet and 100 lineal feat
Of plank footwalk, 8 feet wide.
10y llneal feet OF stockade on Bay side, with
block house % by 20 feet, and three platforms Of
various Dimensions, and footwalk.
One Hose Carriage.
Twenty eight Fire Ladders.
Twenty-four Axes
One hundred and sixteen Fire Buckets, and q
sig Lengths Of Hose, each 81 feet long
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-
fore the war. fayorite watering place, and is
well adapted for the purpose now, having ex-
abundance OF fish and 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 4 circle, radiRting from
a common centre, aud 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 wharves,
south hside 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
alton OF bidders to Point Lookout, aud will be
retained until the close Of the sale 10 return the
passengers to Baltimore. Meals will be fur.
nished on the boat at the usual (stoamboat rates
The buildings will be sold singly, and other
property In lots to suit purchasers.
The military guard will remain In charge Of
The buildings, &c, for fifteen days after the sale
4 desired, and purchasers will be allowed twenty
lays In which to remove their property.
Terms: Cash, In Government funds
M. LUDINGToN,
Colonel and Chief Quartermaster,