While driving back from Point Lookout State Park, I made a brief stop at the Point Lookout Prisoners of War Memorial, dedicated to Confederates who were held prisoner at the Point Lookout POW camp. The memorial includes a statue and a model of a wooden fort, both on top of a brick structure and surrounded by flagpoles.
A short walk from the statue and flagpoles above is a wooden stockade wall.
The memorial also includes this stone marker.
Although Maryland never joined the Confederacy, there was quite a bit of sympathy for the Confederacy in the state. Thus, the presence of this sort of memorial isn't all that surprising.
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