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Each year, we the descendants, make our
annual pilgrimage to Point Lookout, MD to the hallow grounds
where over 52,000
of our family were imprisoned and over 14,000 died, between
1863-1865. We make this pilgrimage to mourn our dead, present
a memorial tribute in their name, present a living history
with a prison portrayal and have our descendants' meeting. In
addition this year, we will be dedicating Confederate Memorial
Park!
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If your CSA related group would like to set up
in our living history area, please contact us at info@plpow.com for
a form. This would include small Confederate enampments of: infantry,
cavalry, navy, marine, zouaves
and home guard; first person portrayals of medics, civilians
and historical persons of this time period; historical and heritage
displays, vendors and sutlers. There is no fee to
setup; however, we do request that you make a financial contribution
of
your choice
to Confederate
Memorial Park. Registration deadline in May 31, 2008.
Floral Wreath: If
you or your organization would like to present a floral wreath,
please send an email to plpow@verizon.net to
have your name placed on the presentation list. Include your or your
organization's name and who the floral tribute is in memory of.
| Lodging |
The nearest motel from the park is approx.
17 miles away in Lexington Park. Call the Days Inn Motel
(21847 Three Notch Road) at 301-863-6666.
Their rooms include a fridge, coffee maker, microwave, hair
dyer, TV, newspaper, and a hot complimnetary breakfast buffet.
They also have a pool, free high-speed internet, and a gym/fitness
center.
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| Directions
to Pt. Lookout |
Point Lookout, Maryland is
found on the southern tip of St. Mary's County. Click
here to see a state map with Pt. Lookout Highlighted.
Click
Here for Google directions to Confederate
Memorial Park for our 2008 Pilgrimage.
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| Friday,
September 5th at High Noon: |
All Lee's
Miserables muster in camp to erect tents/shebangs, prepare
area and practice until 4 pm for Saturday's performance.
Dan Kesler is in charge of our POW re-enactors. (confedpow@comcast.net)
All Lee's Miserables re-enactors please
muster on Friday with any of the following that you can
bring (however, it is imperative
if you don't have a tent, that each LM bring a sheet, poles
and
blanket): bales of hay, firewood,
haversack, beef jerky (rat meat), dried fruit, hardtack,
beans, oyster/crab shells, checkers, dominoes, wooden dice,
worn out deck of cards, tattered books, newspapers, letters,
bones, ball/chain, tin type photos, whittling
knife, etc. Don't forget to wear your
black arm-bands. Attire ~ worn, ragged, dirty, patched
clothing. Do not
shave. Please do not wear tennis shoes or sunglasses.
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| Friday,
September 5th at 5:30pm: |
Supper at Bon
Buffet, Lexington Park
21800 Shanghai Dr. N.
Located in the same parking lot as Days
Inn Motel. Everyone is invited: members, family, guests,
re-enactors.
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| Friday,
September 5th at
7:00 pm: Descendants Meeting |
The meeting will be held at the Ridge Volunteer Fire Department,
13820 Point Lookout Road,
Ridge, MD 20680. This is near
the intersection of Rt. 235 + Rt. 5. Click
Here for Google directions to the meeting location
for our 2008 Pilgrimage.
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Special guest speaker will be
Fred D. Taylor, rising attorney from Macon, GA. His topic will
be "Civilan
Prisoners in Point Lookout." |
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HONORING AMERICAN POW VETERANS OF PT. LOOKOUT
| Saturday,
September 6th: |
Family day in
Confederate Memorial Park
Displays from heritage, historical and
civic organizations. Vendors, authors on site, re-enactors,
encampments and our own POW living history! Our living
history provides many areas of interest. This is a Family
Day at Confederate Memorial Park. We also encourage all
local school and scout groups to visit and learn more about
Maryland's historical significance during the War of Northern
Aggression and especially the role that St. Mary's County
played during a divisive era of turmoil in our country.
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Back by popular demand! The Brunswick
County SCV boys will be cooking their famous homemade brunswick
stew! Bring your appetite! If you can't eat it all there,
there will be pints and quarts for purchasing to take
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Striblings Battery will be giving our cannon dedication
salute. They will also be giving artillery demos in the
living history area as well as reenacting a historically
accurate prison exchange of their men who were in Pt.
Lookout! |
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Gary Walker, Confederate Author |
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Confederate Memorial Park, Inc. |
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Clan Wallace Scottish Society
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Eddie Roberts' Original
Period
Weapons Display
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Capt. Vincent Camalier SCV Camp #1359
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have a display showing pictures/info on local Confederate
Veterans. This should especially be of interest to
local Marylanders. Commander Rob Long invites everyone
to stop by and visit their display and learn how you
can join this prestigious descendant organization and
help preserve Maryland's history! Also, be sure to
check out the times that they will be conducting cemetery
tours! Here you will learn the history of the 85' federal
monument, the history of the smaller state monument
, about the mass grave (moved 3 times before ending
there), about their camp being the guardian of the
prisoners' flag that's not allowed in the cemetery
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Saturday, September 6th
at 9:00 am:
Confederate Memorial Park
Dedication Ceremony
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Bring your Confederate
state flags and your Confederate battle flags
 9:00
Entrance: POW Honor Guard.
Invocation: Rev. Fr. Alister Anderson
Welcoming
Remarks: PLPOW President Patricia Buck Dedication of Flagpoles & State Trees:
- 1st CSA National Flag…Franklin Rifles SCV Camp
#310…Wade Harris
- 2nd CSA National Flag…Capt. James I. Waddell SCV
Camp #1608…Cmdr. Stephen LaPlanche
- 3rd CSA National Flag …
- National Flag of Scotland…Michael Virts
- Cherokee Braves National Flag…
- Bonnie Blue Flag…James N. Langley, III
- South Carolina Flag…Betty B. Mann
- South Carolina State Tree…SC Div. UDC, Theresa
G. Pittman, SC UDC Div. Pres.
- Mississippi State Flag…..MG E. C. Walthall SCV
Camp/MS Div SCV, Dr. Christopher Cummins
- Mississippi State Tree…
- Florida State Flag….Jack Crowell
- Florida State Tree…Thomas Walden
- Alabama State Flag…AL Div. UDC, Pat Godwin,
Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's Heroine
- Alabama State Tree… Russell Darden
- Georgia State Flag…GA Div. SCV, Charles Lott,
Div Cmdr.
- Georgia State Tree…Eliana, Isabella, & Sarah
Grace Cummins
- Louisiana State Flag…Dr. Robert Griffon
- Louisiana State Tree…Judge R. B. Abell
- Texas State Flag…Texas Southern Heritage
Ball, David Whitaker
- Texas State Tree…Pris Squires
- Arkansas State Flag…Louis R. Fritz
- Arkansas State Tree…Patrick
Murphy
- Virginia State Flag…Old Brunswick SCV Camp #512…Tracy
Clary
- Virginia State Tree…Steve DeFreytas
- Tennessee State Flag…TN Div SCV, Dr. Michael Bradley
- Tennessee State Tree…John, Joyce and Doug Nash
- North Carolina Flag...Bob Hester & Vance Forbes
- North Carolina State Tree…Sgt. Ivy Richie SCV,
Cmdr. Joel Fesperman
- Missouri State Flag…
- Missouri State Tree…Jim & Zenda Benton
- Kentucky State Flag…Simpson Nurseries, Fred Beshears
- Kentucky State Tree…John B. Stober, Jr.
- Pt. Lookout POW Flag…Jerry Wells
- Confederate Battle Flag…Betty Mann
Please stand
for the national anthem of the South, Dixie
Special Music: presented
by Fran Towberman, Wade Harris, and Piper Jay Barringer,
Terry Klima, and Jay Moore.
Statue Unveiling:
- CMPI Officers and sculptor Gary Casteel
Remarks:
- James B. Dunbar, CMPI Chm.
- Rick Griffin
Special Guest Speaker:
- Pastor John Weaver from Fitzgerald, GA
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Presentation of Memorial Tributes
Artillery Salute: Striblings Battery
Taps
Benediction: Rev. Herman White
Amazing Grace
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Check by often, as updates will be added, as event draws nearer!
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