Elijah Henry Sutton of Company K, 24th Georgia, was captured on 2 July 1863 at Gettysburg and spent about three months at Fort Delaware before being transferred to Point Lookout (in October 1863). He writes, "Arriving at Point Lookout, we were organized into companies of 100 men and each company had a Sergeant appointed from among the prisoners to command it. Sergeants C. C. Crow and Thomason were both appointed for our company, which was Company E, 6th Division. The prison was surrounded by a board fence 12 feet high and about a quarter of a mile square. Four feet from the top of this fence on the outside was a walkway for guards, who, with loaded guns, were always present. They were 25 or 30 paces apart and had orders to shoot us if we crossed the dead line, which was about five paces from the fence on the inside. This enclosure, or bull pen, as it was called, had one gate or entrance at the southeast corner and one street running east and west some 40 paces from the fence." "The inside of the prison grounds was laid off into streets and large round tents were placed on either side of the streets. Ten men occupied each tent, when full, and ten tents were called a company. ... There were 10 companies on each street, and ten streets in the camp, which when full, held 10,000 men. There were five cooking and eating houses for each two streets or divisions and meals were served 500 men at a time." The "gate was the only means of ingress and egress except a small gate on the north side which led to the privees, which were built on piles over the waters of the bay and were kept open during the day but carefully closed at night." Sergeants Crow and Thomason "and myself occupied the sergeants tent, which was headquarters for the company, and were given a little extra rations for our services. The roll of the company was called every day and only those answering or accounted for as sick were permitted to draw rations or go to the table to eat. The roll calls were attended by a Yankee corporal to see that there were no frauds. We were called to the eating houses twice daily. In the forenoon we went in and were given eight army crackers and a small piece of meat or fish. The sergeant marched at the head of his company to the door and there he took his stand with the Yankee who was guarding the door to prevent any one going in who did not belong to the company. The sergeant passed all his men in and then followed them and they took their places at the table." (To be continued)