4270A UNIQUE & FINE CONFEDERATE OFFICER AUTOGRAPH BOOK,

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POINT LOOKOUT, PRISONER OF WAR CAMP Small leather bound 6" ledger, 82 hand numbered pages filled with signatures and comments of 157 officers with personal detail as to where captured, unit served, addresses. Miss Caroline C. "Carrie" Morfit (1840-1876) who owned album was daughter in prominent Baltimore family, 2 of her brothers were well known Confederate officers, Major Mason Morfit & Surgeon Charles Morfit, CSN. Carrie was no doubt one of the many volunteers from Baltimore who with her family's connections could give some aid to the officers at Point Lookout. Officers and enlisted men had separate camps, and access was only available to officers who were much better treated. Pt. Lookout was established on an isolated point of land south of Baltimore on Chesapeake Bay, August 1863 to take in the many prisoners captured at the Battle of Gettysburg. It became the largest POW camp of Confederate soldiers, housing as many as 50,000 prisoners in its year and a half in operation. Over 3000 Confederate soldiers died at Point Lookout and are buried there. Officers from most every Confederate state signed and wrote comments in this journal, Gettysburg captured officers dominate, but some captured in western theatres are here too, interesting that most state their marriage status as Carrie must have requested. Autograph albums of Confederate officers are well known from Johnson's island, but this is the only Point Lookout autograph album I am aware and the personal comments are special: "1st Lt. W. Kendall, Co. A, 3rd KY Cav, Gen. Morgan's command, address Pilot Point, Denton Co, Texas, born in Tazewell VA, raised in KY, emigrated to Texas in 1858, where I have a family consisting of a wife and four children, from whom I have not heard since the 18th of Jan. 1863; but am content, knowing that they are in the hands of Him by whose aid we expect eventually to succeed in the present struggle for independence" "Lt. Francis A. Boyle, adj 32nd NC, from Plymouth, NC: There are 3 that I desire with an exceeding longing-a sword, a wife, and my freedom" Lt. Benj. J. Lancaster, 8th KY Cav, ..When this war is over and not before, will I go home. Base cowards shrink, fools stop to think, till freedom is gone". UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: large file of information, and CONDITION: very good overall, few inscriptions light, but all discernible, tear in spine, scuffing. PROVENANCE: Richard "Dick" Littlefield estate collection. (02-25367/JS). NON-GUN. $4,000-8,000.