Scope and Content From the Collection: The John R. Cason Papers consist of only one journal with copied letters and lists as well as signatures of Confederate officers at Point Lookout, Maryland, during the American Civil War. The journal is divided into four sections. The first section, starting on page [ii], is a list of the "Names of officers confined at Point Lookout Md. Feb 22nd/64." Fifty-nine officers signed their names, ranks, units, and sometimes places of capture in this section, including John O. Murray...