Identifier: 03520265.3270.emory.edu
Title: A history of the Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (electronic resource)
Year:1863. Published 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Child, William, b. 1834
Subjects: United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Bristol, N.H. : R.W. Musgrove, printer
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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rs; next toward the square were the company cooks quarters, and next the quarters of the privates. In front of the commanders quarters there was thus an open space, across which might be observed the whole regiment, without change of position, and where the regiment was daily formed in line of battle for dress-parade,inspections and reviews. Upon the western border was the guardhouse and quarters. This square was level, clean and well drained and was constantly used for drills. In the foreground of the cut is the road leading northward into the country, and along the same a deep ditch for drain-age. In the background is the Chesapeake bay. In the extreme rear right is a corner of the prisoners-of-war stockade,constructed of boards and joists ; at the corner is the regimental stable. The original of this wood-cut was drawn b)Surgeon John W Bucknam, and is an exact representation of the camp. Upon this ground the regiment continued from the 14th day of November, 1863, until the 27th day of May,
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RECOLLECTIONS OF POINT LOOKOUT 239 1864. Its labors were not severe, yet the highest order of military discipline, drill, inspections and reviews were constantly enforced. The following RECOLLECTIONS OF POINT LOOKOUT b) Adjutant Elias H. Marston is an excellent account in general terms:— Left Boston Harbor (Long Island) November 6, 1863, onthe City of Bath and Karnak. The weather was windy and the voyage rough — many seasick. Arrived at Alex-andria November 11. From this place Colonel Hapgood proceeded to Washington and had an interview with GeneralHalleck. The result was that instead of debarking at Alexandria and proceeding to the front, we were ordered to report to General Gilman Marston, in command of the camp for rebel prisoners, at Point Lookout, Md. On reaching the Point the regiment landed and went into camp just north of the prisoners stockade, on the Chesapeake shore. The prisoners numbered, it is said, several thousand, and the j^ were guarded mainly, at the time of our ar

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