Many heritage
organizations are doing their part to have April legally declared
as Confederate History Month and are also promoting essay contests
in schools, libraries, and within their own organizations. PLPOW
is offering a fifty-dollar money prize for an essay written on one
of the listed topics.
Rules:
- Body of essay has to mainly
focus within the time period of 1863 – 1865, only topics listed
below are eligible.
- Five to fifty-five pages in
length, typed, single-spaced, single sided, grammatical
accurate, and thoroughly documented on 8 ˝” x 11” paper.
- Anyone is eligible to enter,
with no limitations on age.
- Entries on more than one
topic are permissible.
- Essays become the property of
PLPOW.
- Deadline to receive entry is
April 30, 2008. Send entries to PLPOW, 1214 Moyer Rd, Newport
News, VA 23608-2453.
- Possible references:
federal/state archives, local libraries, regimental histories,
family histories, diaries, Official Records of the
Confederate/Union Armies & Navies, Southern Historical Papers,
etc
- Articles from previous
Parapets are not permissible within essay.
- Questions: Email
plpow@verizon.net
TWENTY-TWO WAYS
TO EARN FIFTY DOLLARS
- Religion at Point Lookout
- Hammond Hospital
- Smallpox Hospital at Point
Lookout
- Sanitary Conditions and
Sanitary Commission at Point Lookout
- Rations at Point Lookout
- Contraband at Point Lookout
- Black POWs vs. Black Guards
at Point Lookout
- Citizens as POWs in Point
Lookout
- Refugees at Point Lookout
- Provost Marshals at Point
Lookout
- Photography at Point Lookout
- Six (or more) wharf collapses
at Pt Lookout
- Punishments at Point Lookout
- Cattle Yard and Stables at
Pt. Lookout
- Star Spangled Masonic League
at Point Lookout
- Union Guards at Point Lookout
- Union Guard Boats outside
prison area
- Prisoner shelter at Point
Lookout
- Native Americans in Point
Lookout
- Point Lookout’s Aeolian Glee
Club
- Point Lookout’s Confederate
Minstrel
- Point Lookout’s Camp of
Galvanizers
“It is high
time that the whole matter is viewed in its true perspective.”
… Edwin Beitzell
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