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Patricia B. Buck, Founder
and President of PLPOW
Welcomes you to our Descendants' home page
We pride ourselves on our Southern bond of kinship
derived from the CSA soldiers who suffered just a little more past
the hardships of the battlefield, enduring deprivations of imprisonment
where over 14,000 met their death.
Our main goal is to acquire the
due/honorable recognition of each of the over 52,000 POWs incarcerated
at Pt. Lookout. If
you are
a descendant of these brave prisoners, we encourage you to join,
registering your ancestor among our Archives. A membership
application can be printed from this web site, or if you have any trouble,
just email plpow@verizon.net and request one to be mailed to you.
We are currently revamping
the site with a new application forms being accompanied by
new certificates! Check back regularly for updates. We promise
to be bigger and better!
Memberships are processed within
the same week of receipt...which
is a standard not yet met by other larger historical/heritage
organizations (as well as many smaller ones). As of April
2007, we have had over
1365 people from 42 states and abroad to join.
The Point Lookout Prisoner of War Organization
is a volunteer, historical, patriotic, educational,
memorial, unreconstructed,
unapologetic, heritage association and IS NOT affiliated with any
other organization. It was founded in July 1991 to pay homage to
Confederate ancestors: military & civilian, men, women and
children of all races who were POWs at Point Lookout, Maryland
1863-1865.
To join, any/all family members regardless of age has only to submit
proof that their Confederate ancestor was in prison at Point Lookout.
What you send is what will be used on your ancestor page(s) in
our Archives. Send as much as you like, as long as it pertains
only to imprisonment. This can be copies (8.5" x 11" ltr.
size. only) of their pension records, excerpts from diaries/letters,
when they were mentioned in books/magazines, oaths of allegiance,
muster sheets, membership into a UCV camp, etc. We strongly encourage
a copy of a picture of your ancestor to be placed on your ancestor’s
page in the PLPOW Archive Book. We keep a list of each member and
their ancestor. We have matched people who had relatives from the
same family, town or regiment. The ancestor can be grandfather,
uncle, or cousin; just as long as the ancestor is blood related
to the applicant. The price to join is $20.00 per year. For those
who had more than one ancestor at Point Lookout, supplementals
can be obtained for $5.00 each, which includes another certificate.
Only supplementals can acquire additional stars on your POW ribbon.
For
joining, members will receive a certificate suitable for framing,
a membership card, and can purchase POW
bumper stickers, pins, medals, necklaces, Pt. Lookout CD and POW
clothing patches.
We can provide Point
Lookout programs complete
with speaker and slides for your historical or civic organization.
"THE PARAPET" is the organization’s
bi-monthly unreconstructed newsletter. The PARAPET name was chosen
because it is the purpose of our
newsletter to "overlook the whole camp" and publish all
known happenings at Point Lookout that we can possibly learn. Whatever
any of us
are searching for or have to share about the prison camp, we’re
all interested, because Point Lookout touched all our members’ lives.
We all have Confederate POW blood flowing in our veins!
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