Newell served in Company E 154th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
Enlisted, August 22, 1862,
at Portland, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Co.
E , September 24, 1862; captured in action, July 1, 1863, at
Gettysburg, Pa. ; paroled, April 21, 1865; mustered out, June
21, 1865, at New York city.
A member of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. He was captured on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. First imprisoned at Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia and then Andersonville, Georgia. He is credited with having been the longest held Union prisoner of war during the Civil War, surviving 661 days in Confederate hands. He recorded the deplorable conditions at Andersonville in his diary which is in the collection of the Dunn County Historical Society in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Information source: History of Andersonville Prison - Wikipedia
Enlisted, August 22, 1862,
at Portland, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Co.
E , September 24, 1862; captured in action, July 1, 1863, at
Gettysburg, Pa. ; paroled, April 21, 1865; mustered out, June
21, 1865, at New York city.
A member of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. He was captured on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. First imprisoned at Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia and then Andersonville, Georgia. He is credited with having been the longest held Union prisoner of war during the Civil War, surviving 661 days in Confederate hands. He recorded the deplorable conditions at Andersonville in his diary which is in the collection of the Dunn County Historical Society in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Information source: History of Andersonville Prison - Wikipedia
Newell served in Company E 154th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
Enlisted, August 22, 1862,
at Portland, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Co.
E , September 24, 1862; captured in action, July 1, 1863, at
Gettysburg, Pa. ; paroled, April 21, 1865; mustered out, June
21, 1865, at New York city.
A member of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. He was captured on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. First imprisoned at Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia and then Andersonville, Georgia. He is credited with having been the longest held Union prisoner of war during the Civil War, surviving 661 days in Confederate hands. He recorded the deplorable conditions at Andersonville in his diary which is in the collection of the Dunn County Historical Society in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Information source: History of Andersonville Prison - Wikipedia
Enlisted, August 22, 1862,
at Portland, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Co.
E , September 24, 1862; captured in action, July 1, 1863, at
Gettysburg, Pa. ; paroled, April 21, 1865; mustered out, June
21, 1865, at New York city.
A member of the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. He was captured on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. First imprisoned at Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia and then Andersonville, Georgia. He is credited with having been the longest held Union prisoner of war during the Civil War, surviving 661 days in Confederate hands. He recorded the deplorable conditions at Andersonville in his diary which is in the collection of the Dunn County Historical Society in Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Information source: History of Andersonville Prison - Wikipedia
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