N.D. Loutsenheiser

Federal (USV)

Corporal

Newell D. Loutsenheiser

(? - 1864)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted as Corporal in Company E, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 22 August 1862.

On the Campaign

Camped at Young Ladies Seminary building in Urbana, MD on 16 September 1862. Noted for recording name or other graffiti on the walls there.

The rest of the War

He was mortally wounded in action at Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA on 8 May 1864.

After the War

He died of wounds on 21 May 1864.

References & notes

Basic information and his picture from Porter1, with details from Bates2.

Death

05/21/1864; Alexandria, VA; burial in Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, VA

Notes

1 Porter, John T. , Financial Secretary, and Charles F. McKenna, compiler & editor, Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865: Campaigns of the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Pittsburgh: 155th Regimental Association, 1910, pp. 68 - 76 [AotW citation 13564]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 13596]

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