Really?!?
I’m shocked!
Since when?
We kept a cabin cruiser docked at Coles Point Marina back in the 70s and often putted over to Point Lookout.
[great water for catching foul-tempered, toothy, tasty Bluefish]
They had flags back then.
Hell, Coles Point was flying them everywhere, too.
What happened??
The park *still* doesn’t own the land on which Lee stands or it’d be gone in a Yankee heartbeat.
They only bought the farm across the road from it.
It’s full of Longhorns and Mulberry trees.
:)
As far as I know, that is the latest on the issue.
Interestingly, Chief Justice Roger Taney of Ex Parte Merryman fame, had a place at Point Lookout, at least he did right before the war. Here is my favorite quote from his Ex Parte Merryman order against Lincoln:
The constitution provides, as I have before said, that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law." It declares that "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." It provides that the party accused shall be entitled to a speedy trial in a court of justice.
These great and fundamental laws, which congress itself could not suspend, have been disregarded and suspended, like the writ of habeas corpus, by a military order, supported by force of arms. Such is the case now before me, and I can only say that if the authority which the constitution has confided to the judiciary department and judicial officers, may thus, upon any pretext or under any circumstances, be usurped by the military power, at its discretion, the people of the United States are no longer living under a government of laws, but every citizen holds life, liberty and property at the will and pleasure of the army officer in whose military district he may happen to be found.