Name: Lewis M Lowe Residence: Laporte, Indiana Enlistment Date: 9 Dec 1862 Rank at enlistment: Private State Served: Indiana Service Record: Enlisted in Company I, Indiana 87th Infantry Regiment Union on 12 Sep 1862.
Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
Lewis joined the Army with his brother William, they were in the same Company I, 87th Infantry Reg. William outranked Lewis.
LOWE, LEWIS M. 09/12/1862 Missing in action at Chickamauga (in Georgia) 09/29/1863.Lewis was wounded, taken prisoner and held at LIBBY Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia, he was starved to death.
From Wikipedia.....
A group of surgeons, upon their release from LIBBY, published an account of what they experienced treating Libby inmates in the attached hospital:
Thus we have over ten per cent of the whole number of prisoners held classed as sick men, who need the most assiduous and skilful attention; yet, in the essential matter of rations, they are receiving nothing but corn bread and sweet potatoes. Meat is no longer furnished to any class of our prisoners except to the few officers in Libby hospital, and all sick or well officers or privates are now furnished with a very poor article of corn bread in place of wheat bread, unsuitable diet for hospital patients prostrated with diarrhea, dysentery and fever, to say nothing of the balance of startling instances of individual suffering and horrid pictures of death from protracted sickness and semi-starvation we have had thrust upon our observation.
The first demand of the poor creatures from the island was always for something to eat. Self respect gone, hope and ambition gone, half clad and covered with vermin and filth, many of them are too often beyond all reach of medical skill. In one instance the ambulances brought sixteen to the hospital, and during the night seven of them died. Again, eighteen were brought, and eleven of them died in twenty-four hours. At another time fourteen were admitted, and in a single day ten of them died. Judging from what we have ourselves seen and do know, we do not hesitate to say that, under a treatment of systematic abuse, neglect and semi-starvation, the numbers who are becoming permanently broken down in their constitutions must be reckoned by thousands.
Shortly after the battle of Chickamauga about two hundred wounded prisoners arrived at Richmond from the field. They were almost all in a famishing and starving condition. They were three days on the road between the two points, and all they had to eat during that time was four hard crackers each. On their arrival at Richmond they were taken to the Libby prison, where they laid two days longer without having their wounds dressed, and during all which time they had not a mouthful to eat.[1]
An article in the Richmond Enquirer vividly described prison conditions:
Libby takes in the captured Federals by scores, but lets none out; they are huddled up and jammed into every nook and corner; at the bathing troughs, around the cooking stoves, everywhere there is a wrangling, jostling crowd; at night the floor of every room they occupy in the building is covered, every square inch of it, by uneasy slumberers, lying side by side, and heel to head, as tightly packed as if the prison were a huge, improbable box of nocturnal sardines.
Name: Lewis M Lowe Service Info.: PVT US ARMY CIVIL WAR Death Date: 17 Mar 1864 Cemetery: Danville National Name:
Death Date: 17 Mar 1864
Interment Date: 17 Mar 1864
Cemetery Address: Cemetery: Danville National Cemetery, VA
Buried At: Section E Site 890
LOWE, LEWIS M
PVT US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 03/16/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION E SITE 890
Occupation before the War , Teacher, I have two death dates on Lewis, 16th and 17th of March. The 17th may be the burial date.
Age at death, 25y 8m 16d
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Lewis's brother, Judge Elias M.Lowe named a son after him,
Louis Michael Lowe who died in WWI.
Research and bio by~ JMB
Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
Lewis joined the Army with his brother William, they were in the same Company I, 87th Infantry Reg. William outranked Lewis.
LOWE, LEWIS M. 09/12/1862 Missing in action at Chickamauga (in Georgia) 09/29/1863.Lewis was wounded, taken prisoner and held at LIBBY Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia, he was starved to death.
From Wikipedia.....
A group of surgeons, upon their release from LIBBY, published an account of what they experienced treating Libby inmates in the attached hospital:
Thus we have over ten per cent of the whole number of prisoners held classed as sick men, who need the most assiduous and skilful attention; yet, in the essential matter of rations, they are receiving nothing but corn bread and sweet potatoes. Meat is no longer furnished to any class of our prisoners except to the few officers in Libby hospital, and all sick or well officers or privates are now furnished with a very poor article of corn bread in place of wheat bread, unsuitable diet for hospital patients prostrated with diarrhea, dysentery and fever, to say nothing of the balance of startling instances of individual suffering and horrid pictures of death from protracted sickness and semi-starvation we have had thrust upon our observation.
The first demand of the poor creatures from the island was always for something to eat. Self respect gone, hope and ambition gone, half clad and covered with vermin and filth, many of them are too often beyond all reach of medical skill. In one instance the ambulances brought sixteen to the hospital, and during the night seven of them died. Again, eighteen were brought, and eleven of them died in twenty-four hours. At another time fourteen were admitted, and in a single day ten of them died. Judging from what we have ourselves seen and do know, we do not hesitate to say that, under a treatment of systematic abuse, neglect and semi-starvation, the numbers who are becoming permanently broken down in their constitutions must be reckoned by thousands.
Shortly after the battle of Chickamauga about two hundred wounded prisoners arrived at Richmond from the field. They were almost all in a famishing and starving condition. They were three days on the road between the two points, and all they had to eat during that time was four hard crackers each. On their arrival at Richmond they were taken to the Libby prison, where they laid two days longer without having their wounds dressed, and during all which time they had not a mouthful to eat.[1]
An article in the Richmond Enquirer vividly described prison conditions:
Libby takes in the captured Federals by scores, but lets none out; they are huddled up and jammed into every nook and corner; at the bathing troughs, around the cooking stoves, everywhere there is a wrangling, jostling crowd; at night the floor of every room they occupy in the building is covered, every square inch of it, by uneasy slumberers, lying side by side, and heel to head, as tightly packed as if the prison were a huge, improbable box of nocturnal sardines.
Name: Lewis M Lowe Service Info.: PVT US ARMY CIVIL WAR Death Date: 17 Mar 1864 Cemetery: Danville National Name:
Death Date: 17 Mar 1864
Interment Date: 17 Mar 1864
Cemetery Address: Cemetery: Danville National Cemetery, VA
Buried At: Section E Site 890
LOWE, LEWIS M
PVT US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 03/16/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION E SITE 890
Occupation before the War , Teacher, I have two death dates on Lewis, 16th and 17th of March. The 17th may be the burial date.
Age at death, 25y 8m 16d
~ ~ ~
Lewis's brother, Judge Elias M.Lowe named a son after him,
Louis Michael Lowe who died in WWI.
Research and bio by~ JMB
Name: Lewis M Lowe Residence: Laporte, Indiana Enlistment Date: 9 Dec 1862 Rank at enlistment: Private State Served: Indiana Service Record: Enlisted in Company I, Indiana 87th Infantry Regiment Union on 12 Sep 1862.
Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
Lewis joined the Army with his brother William, they were in the same Company I, 87th Infantry Reg. William outranked Lewis.
LOWE, LEWIS M. 09/12/1862 Missing in action at Chickamauga (in Georgia) 09/29/1863.Lewis was wounded, taken prisoner and held at LIBBY Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia, he was starved to death.
From Wikipedia.....
A group of surgeons, upon their release from LIBBY, published an account of what they experienced treating Libby inmates in the attached hospital:
Thus we have over ten per cent of the whole number of prisoners held classed as sick men, who need the most assiduous and skilful attention; yet, in the essential matter of rations, they are receiving nothing but corn bread and sweet potatoes. Meat is no longer furnished to any class of our prisoners except to the few officers in Libby hospital, and all sick or well officers or privates are now furnished with a very poor article of corn bread in place of wheat bread, unsuitable diet for hospital patients prostrated with diarrhea, dysentery and fever, to say nothing of the balance of startling instances of individual suffering and horrid pictures of death from protracted sickness and semi-starvation we have had thrust upon our observation.
The first demand of the poor creatures from the island was always for something to eat. Self respect gone, hope and ambition gone, half clad and covered with vermin and filth, many of them are too often beyond all reach of medical skill. In one instance the ambulances brought sixteen to the hospital, and during the night seven of them died. Again, eighteen were brought, and eleven of them died in twenty-four hours. At another time fourteen were admitted, and in a single day ten of them died. Judging from what we have ourselves seen and do know, we do not hesitate to say that, under a treatment of systematic abuse, neglect and semi-starvation, the numbers who are becoming permanently broken down in their constitutions must be reckoned by thousands.
Shortly after the battle of Chickamauga about two hundred wounded prisoners arrived at Richmond from the field. They were almost all in a famishing and starving condition. They were three days on the road between the two points, and all they had to eat during that time was four hard crackers each. On their arrival at Richmond they were taken to the Libby prison, where they laid two days longer without having their wounds dressed, and during all which time they had not a mouthful to eat.[1]
An article in the Richmond Enquirer vividly described prison conditions:
Libby takes in the captured Federals by scores, but lets none out; they are huddled up and jammed into every nook and corner; at the bathing troughs, around the cooking stoves, everywhere there is a wrangling, jostling crowd; at night the floor of every room they occupy in the building is covered, every square inch of it, by uneasy slumberers, lying side by side, and heel to head, as tightly packed as if the prison were a huge, improbable box of nocturnal sardines.
Name: Lewis M Lowe Service Info.: PVT US ARMY CIVIL WAR Death Date: 17 Mar 1864 Cemetery: Danville National Name:
Death Date: 17 Mar 1864
Interment Date: 17 Mar 1864
Cemetery Address: Cemetery: Danville National Cemetery, VA
Buried At: Section E Site 890
LOWE, LEWIS M
PVT US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 03/16/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION E SITE 890
Occupation before the War , Teacher, I have two death dates on Lewis, 16th and 17th of March. The 17th may be the burial date.
Age at death, 25y 8m 16d
~ ~ ~
Lewis's brother, Judge Elias M.Lowe named a son after him,
Louis Michael Lowe who died in WWI.
Research and bio by~ JMB
Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
Lewis joined the Army with his brother William, they were in the same Company I, 87th Infantry Reg. William outranked Lewis.
LOWE, LEWIS M. 09/12/1862 Missing in action at Chickamauga (in Georgia) 09/29/1863.Lewis was wounded, taken prisoner and held at LIBBY Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia, he was starved to death.
From Wikipedia.....
A group of surgeons, upon their release from LIBBY, published an account of what they experienced treating Libby inmates in the attached hospital:
Thus we have over ten per cent of the whole number of prisoners held classed as sick men, who need the most assiduous and skilful attention; yet, in the essential matter of rations, they are receiving nothing but corn bread and sweet potatoes. Meat is no longer furnished to any class of our prisoners except to the few officers in Libby hospital, and all sick or well officers or privates are now furnished with a very poor article of corn bread in place of wheat bread, unsuitable diet for hospital patients prostrated with diarrhea, dysentery and fever, to say nothing of the balance of startling instances of individual suffering and horrid pictures of death from protracted sickness and semi-starvation we have had thrust upon our observation.
The first demand of the poor creatures from the island was always for something to eat. Self respect gone, hope and ambition gone, half clad and covered with vermin and filth, many of them are too often beyond all reach of medical skill. In one instance the ambulances brought sixteen to the hospital, and during the night seven of them died. Again, eighteen were brought, and eleven of them died in twenty-four hours. At another time fourteen were admitted, and in a single day ten of them died. Judging from what we have ourselves seen and do know, we do not hesitate to say that, under a treatment of systematic abuse, neglect and semi-starvation, the numbers who are becoming permanently broken down in their constitutions must be reckoned by thousands.
Shortly after the battle of Chickamauga about two hundred wounded prisoners arrived at Richmond from the field. They were almost all in a famishing and starving condition. They were three days on the road between the two points, and all they had to eat during that time was four hard crackers each. On their arrival at Richmond they were taken to the Libby prison, where they laid two days longer without having their wounds dressed, and during all which time they had not a mouthful to eat.[1]
An article in the Richmond Enquirer vividly described prison conditions:
Libby takes in the captured Federals by scores, but lets none out; they are huddled up and jammed into every nook and corner; at the bathing troughs, around the cooking stoves, everywhere there is a wrangling, jostling crowd; at night the floor of every room they occupy in the building is covered, every square inch of it, by uneasy slumberers, lying side by side, and heel to head, as tightly packed as if the prison were a huge, improbable box of nocturnal sardines.
Name: Lewis M Lowe Service Info.: PVT US ARMY CIVIL WAR Death Date: 17 Mar 1864 Cemetery: Danville National Name:
Death Date: 17 Mar 1864
Interment Date: 17 Mar 1864
Cemetery Address: Cemetery: Danville National Cemetery, VA
Buried At: Section E Site 890
LOWE, LEWIS M
PVT US ARMY
CIVIL WAR
DATE OF DEATH: 03/16/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION E SITE 890
Occupation before the War , Teacher, I have two death dates on Lewis, 16th and 17th of March. The 17th may be the burial date.
Age at death, 25y 8m 16d
~ ~ ~
Lewis's brother, Judge Elias M.Lowe named a son after him,
Louis Michael Lowe who died in WWI.
Research and bio by~ JMB
