20,000 Prisoners. No Barracks. ⚔️ Camp Hoffman, Point Lookout
Camp Hoffman at Point Lookout was built to hold 10,000 Confederate prisoners — and it filled almost at once. By December 1863 there were more than 9,000; at its peak, more than 20,000 men at one time, and over 52,000 passed through its gates. And there were no barracks. The prisoners lived in tents on flat, low ground only a few feet above ...