Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-05
ARGE SALE OF GOVERNMENT
IL BUILDINGS AND OTHER PROPERTY AT
POINT LOOKOUT, MARYLAND.

HEADERS. DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON, ]
OFFICE OF CHEZ ouARrERHAsTHR,
wAsHIsaroS, D: G., Dec, ~, lse'.
Will be sold At public auction TO the highest
bidder at POINT LOOKOUT, ND, commencing
THURSDAY, January is, 1854, at 10 o'clock ..
m, the following Frame Buildings and other
pa' HsRT TGHsI sEI 4 s.s ssi HOSPITAL
One Headquarters Building, l76 BY 10 feet
Fifteen Hospital Wards, each Tvs BY Is feet.
One Mess house, $50 by rs feet.
One Guards ouartefs, l67 by ~ feet.
One Contraband Quarters, 90 by II feet.
One Kitchen, 90 by IS feet.
One Chapel, IT by IS feet
One Laundry, 90 BY q feet, with stationary
Engine Locomotive Boiler, and all the necessary
apparatus for steam laundry and drying.
One Cow Stable 81 by IA feet.
One Horse Stable, 90 by q feet.
One Wagon house, small
One Baggage house, IS By rs feet.
One Warehouse, So by IS feet.
One Ica-house, 40 by 80 feet, and 10 feet high.
watef-tank Building, II BY II feet, 50 feet
high, with circular wAter-tAnk 10 feet diameter.
One aw-house.
One Forage house.
| One Dead house, and
| One Wash house, OF various dimensions.
| Also, Covered Plank Footwalks connecting the
above buildings; aggregate length 1880 feet, and
| feet wide.
The above mentioned Head uarters Building
| 10 two stories high, lathsd and plastsrsd, and
the fifteen Hospital Wards, the Mess house, and
few other structures are also lathed and plAa-
tered.
PRISON CAMP.
Ten Hospital Wards, each 40 by IS feet.
Seven Cook houses, each las by q feet
One Cook house, 40 by 20 feet.
one Cook: house, 40 BY 20 feel, with two wings,
each so by % feet
One Headquarters Building, 70 by "a feet. with
two wings, each 20 by 20 feet.
One G. 8. Btorshouse, 90 by "a feet.
one Dispsnsary, 40 BY IS feet.
One Chapel, 100 by "a feet.
One Express once, so by 10 feet.
Ono Guard House, (bloek,) 90 by 10 feet.
One Quarters, one Once, and one store-room'
Of various Dimensions.
$40 lineai feet Of Board Fence, Q feet high 200
lineal feet Of covered Plank Footwalfs, IL 70 OF
wide and s,lss lineal feet Of Plank Rootw alks,
o6GRTRRMAs1ER's DEPARTMENT.
One Quarters, 100 by Is feet.
One Quarters, 100 by II feet.
One Quarters, 70 by 20 feet.
One Quarters, 90 BY Is feet.
Three Stables, averaging l39 by "a ieet each.
One storehouse, 81 by n feet.
Ono smith Shop, s. by "a feet
One wheelwright Shop, 81 by IA feet.
And four 0aiess, three quarters. tT Eos s'or ,, +
one Mess house. Of various Dimensions.
MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS AND orHh Il
PROPERTY.
One Post Hospital, 10 by Is feet.
One Commissary storshouse, 800 by IS feet
One Commissary salssroom and oaee, "a 81
n feet.
One Once, q by 10 feet.
One Guard House, QogD 30 by 90 feet.
One Guard House, QogD so by 20 feet.
Two frame Guard Houses, small size.
One BarrAck at Fort Lincoln, 90 by % feet.
One Ordnance storshouse, 81 BY II feet.
One Slaughter House, 20 BY "a feet, with Shed
"a by Is feet, and ut-buiiding by o feet.
Ono Stable, IS by ~ feet; and,
Ten Kitchens, Quarters, &C., Of various dimeA =
one wharf Of Timber and Lumber, 47e feet long
and varying In width from "a TO 100 feet
24s linesI feet Of stockAde, II feet high on Po-
tomAc side, with bloekhouse 20 By 90 feet, fou
platforms, each 10 by IL feet, and 100 hnsal fee
Of plank footwAik, eject wide. -
1877 lineal feet Of stoekade on Bay side, with
block house Is by 20 feet, and three platforms Of
various Dimensions, and footwalk.
One Hose Carriage.
| Twenty ght Fire Ladders.
Twonty-four Axes.
one hundred and sixteen Fire Buckets, and
Sig Lengths Of Hose, each Of feet long.
Three Cooking Ranges.
One Perpetual oven.
| A quantity Of Old Lumber and q number oil
| Pumps
| fore the war, favorite watering place, and Il
we'll adapted for the purpose now, having ex.
cellent facilities for salt water bathing, and
abundance Of nsh and game.
The buildings above enumerated under the
head OF Omitted States General Hospital'' are
located directly the Point, tho principal strue.
tares being arranged In = eircle,l radiAting from
| q common centre, aud connected BY covered foot.
walks, aud could with moderate expense be fitted
up properly for the accommodation Of visitors, ~
q 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.
A steamer will leave the Government wharVss
south side Of the basin, near fArdy = ship yard
Baltimore, Md, at 10 clock, on the morning oil
Wednesday, January II, 1885, for the transport
alton OF bidders to Point Lookout, and will b
retained until the close Of the sale 10 return III
passengers to Baltimore. Meals will be fur
nished on the boat at the usual (atsamboat) TAtes
The buildings will be sold Singly, and otho
| property In lots to suit purchasers.
| The military guard will remain In charge O
the buildings, &C.. for hftssn days amer the aAls
II desired, and purchasers will be allowed tkOnt,
days in which to remove their property.
Terms Cash, In Government funds.
N. LUDING'roN,
| Colonel and Chief ouArtarmG ster.
de20.l7t Department Of Washington.
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