Andrew Louden

Age 21, he enlisted at Summit, MS on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 26 April 1862 and to 4th Sergeant on 21 July.

He was wounded in the neck in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on 1 October and commissioned 3rd Lieutenant (Junior 2nd Lieutenant) on 4 April 1863. He was wounded in the left leg and captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was held at Johnson's Island, OH to 21 March 1865, when he was sent to Point Lookout, MD. He was transferred again, to Fort Delaware on 28 April, and finally released there on 12 June 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 also as Andrew Lowden, online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as L.A. Lowner.

c. 1840