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Loudon Park National Cemetery

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Architect
  
Meigs, Montgomery C.

NRHP Reference #
  
96000655

Phone
  
+1 410-644-9696

Added to NRHP
  
20 June 1996

Architectural style
  
Second Empire

Area
  
2 ha

Year built
  
1862

Loudon Park National Cemetery

Location
  
3445 Frederick Ave., Baltimore, Maryland

MPS
  
Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS

Address
  
3445 Frederick Ave, Balti, MD 21229, USA

Burials
  
Samuel J. Seymour, Henry Gilbert Costin, Dave Foutz

Similar
  
Loudon Park Cemetery, Lorraine Park Cemetery, Arbutus Memorial Park, New Cathedral Cemetery, Green Mount Cemetery

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Loudon Park National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 5.2 acres (2.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 7,138 interments. It is currently closed to new interments, and is maintained by the Baltimore National Cemetery.

Contents

The cemetery's civil war interments include about 2,300 union soldiers and 650 confederate soldiers.

History

Loudon Park National Cemetery was originally established as a plot within the Loudon Park Cemetery. It was one of the 14 original National Cemeteries established under the National Cemetery Act on July 17, 1862. Most of the original interments were from area veteran hospitals. During the American Civil War, Fort McHenry was a prisoner of war camp, and the prisoners who died while incarcerated there were interred at Loudon Park National Cemetery.

Land acquisitions in 1874, 1875, 1882, 1883 and lastly in 1903, brought the cemetery to its current size.

Loudon Park National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Notable monuments

  • The Maryland Sons Monument, a three-foot-tall terra cotta frieze with a bas relief sculpture. Dedicated in 1885.
  • Rigby Monument, a marble monument erected in 1891 dedicated to Captain James H. Rigby and the 1st Maryland Light Artillery.
  • The Unknown Dead Monument, a marble sculpture, dedicated in 1895.
  • The Maryland Naval Monument, dedicated in 1896.
  • The Confederate Monument, erected in 1912, marking the burial place of Confederate prisoners of war.
  • Notable interments

  • Medal of Honor recipients
  • Private Henry G. Costin, for action during World War I
  • Private James T. Jennings, for action during the American Civil War
  • First Sergeant Henry Newman, for action in Arizona Territory during the Indian Wars
  • First Sergeant Wilhelm O. Philipsen, for action in Colorado Territory during the Indian Wars
  • Sergeant William Taylor, two time recipient for action during the Civil War
  • Others
  • Charles Reginald Schirm, US Congressman
  • Henry Stockbridge, Jr., US Congressman
  • Frank Charles Wachter, US Congressman
  • References

    Loudon Park National Cemetery Wikipedia