{"id":28697,"date":"2019-09-23T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=28697"},"modified":"2019-09-23T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:01:32","slug":"point-lookout-offers-view-to-civil-war-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/23\/point-lookout-offers-view-to-civil-war-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Lookout Offers View to Civil War History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Artillery Weekend\u2019 Highlights Wartime Roles<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1818\/43805919721_d85d24e64c.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial Photo of Point Lookout \" width=\"351\" height=\"197\" \/>History buffs of all ages are invited to the annual Civil War Artillery Weekend event Sept. 28-29 at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/pages\/southern\/pointlookout.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Point Lookout State Park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Programs run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Point Lookout is a peninsula in St. Mary&#8217;s County where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay, and the viewpoint from this strategic location made it a pivotal place during the Civil War. In the early 1860s, the site housed a Union military fort, Hammond General Hospital, and Camp Hoffman, where Confederate prisoners of war were held. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During Artillery Weekend, tours of Fort #3 and the prison pen site will be offered along with living history programs highlighting the military garrison of the fort, plus civilian exhibits and impressions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tours and demonstrations are free but park entrance fees apply. All programs occur rain or shine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The weekend-long event is hosted by Friends of Point Lookout Inc. More information is available by calling the park at 301-872-5688\u200b\u200b, or emailing <\/span><a href=\"mailto:crickenberger@comcast.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bob Crickenberger<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Artillery Weekend\u2019 Highlights Wartime Roles History buffs of all ages are invited to the annual Civil War Artillery Weekend event Sept. 28-29 at Point Lookout State Park. Programs run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Point Lookout is a peninsula in St. Mary&#8217;s County where the Potomac River<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/09\/23\/point-lookout-offers-view-to-civil-war-history\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[3648,3959,3410,2942],"class_list":["post-28697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-civil-war","tag-friends-of-point-lookout","tag-point-lookout-state-park","tag-st-marys-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28706,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28697\/revisions\/28706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}