Point Lookout, Md., was the site of the largest prison camp during the Civil War, with more than 50,000 Confederate soldiers held here between 1863 and 1865, many of them transported by steam ...

A group of descendants of Confederate soldiers and two archaeologists last week used ground-penetrating radar to try to discover the exact location of the buried remains of thousands who died ...

The fact that 800 of our prisoners at Point Lookout were sent up by BUTLER to City Point on the last flag-of-truce boat, led to the belief that the exchange, under the provisions of the cartel ...