Under the Maltese cross, Antietam to Appomattox : the loyal uprising in western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865; campaigns 155th Pennsylvania regiment
Title
Under the Maltese cross, Antietam to Appomattox : the loyal uprising in western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865; campaigns 155th Pennsylvania regiment
Subject
Regimental History
Description
"The Confederates of Longstreet's Corps had occupied this building a few nights previous. They had written their autographs, and many unpatriotic inscriptions, with burnt sticks, on the beautifully, white-plastered walls. They had registered their names, ranks, and regiments conspicuously ; some recording disloyal epigrams and other epitaphs on Abraham Lincoln. The Union troops (about one
hundred in number) who found shelter in the hospitable seminary also took burnt sticks and recorded tributes far from complimentary to one Jefferson Davis and the Southern Confederacy, indulging at the same time in loyal
cartoons of Lincoln, Washington, etc. The names of John M. Lancaster, Theophilus Callen, Newell D. Loutsenheiser, Thomas P. Tomer, James P. O'Neil, Robert P. Douglass, Hugh Leonard, James Finnegan and John Crookham, all of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth, are among those now recalled as having duly recorded their names, ranks, etc., that night on the walls of the parlors of the seminary.
Private McKenna, of Company " E," especially distinguished himself on this occasion as a lightning artist, and was given three cheers by the comrades who witnessed his performance, and unanimously voted Regimental artist."
hundred in number) who found shelter in the hospitable seminary also took burnt sticks and recorded tributes far from complimentary to one Jefferson Davis and the Southern Confederacy, indulging at the same time in loyal
cartoons of Lincoln, Washington, etc. The names of John M. Lancaster, Theophilus Callen, Newell D. Loutsenheiser, Thomas P. Tomer, James P. O'Neil, Robert P. Douglass, Hugh Leonard, James Finnegan and John Crookham, all of the One Hundred and Fifty-fifth, are among those now recalled as having duly recorded their names, ranks, etc., that night on the walls of the parlors of the seminary.
Private McKenna, of Company " E," especially distinguished himself on this occasion as a lightning artist, and was given three cheers by the comrades who witnessed his performance, and unanimously voted Regimental artist."
Creator
155th Regimental Association
Publisher
Internet Archive
Date
1910
Citation
155th Regimental Association, “Under the Maltese cross, Antietam to Appomattox : the loyal uprising in western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865; campaigns 155th Pennsylvania regiment,” Graffiti Soldiers, accessed October 21, 2026, https://drstephenrobertson.com/Graffiti_Soldiers/items/show/1039.