POW Camps "Tragedy and Triumph"

[L Verge]

And, we all know what happened to the Sultana...

I had a great-uncle who survived imprisonment at the above-mentioned Point Lookout. During his incarceration, he was assigned the duty of digging graves. One day, the pick-axe hit his ankle and left a nasty wound. The filth that went into the raw flesh was so foul that the sore never healed. Uncle Mitch survived the camp and lived until the 1880s with a running sore on his leg 'til the end.

To make matters worse, like many Marylanders, our family was divided during the Civil War. Uncle Mitch fought for the Confederacy, and his brother George for the Union. Both survived the war, but never spoke to each other again.