Loudon Park National Cemetery

Loudon Park National Cemetery was one of the original fourteen cemeteries established during the Civil War under the National Cemetery Act of 17 July 1862. Initially, most interments came from Baltimore hospital and camps, including some Confederate soldiers who died while imprisoned at Fort McHenry. In 1884, the remains of approximately 299 soldiers from the now defunct Laurel Cemetery were reinterred in this cemetery. Monuments at the cemetery include the Unknown Dead Monument, the Maryland Naval Monument (dedicated 1896), the Confederate Monument, the Rigby Monument, and the GAR Monument.

In 1996, the cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Historic American Buildings Survey, Loudon Park National Cemetery. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS Reproduction numbers HALS MD-5-3, HALS MD-5-14 and HALS MD-5-15.

Status: Closed to new interments
Address: 3445 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, Md.
Grounds Supervised By: Baltimore National Cemetery

Architecture & Historic Landscape

• Historic American Buildings Survey, Loudon Park National Cemetery, 3445 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, Md.

Sources for Burial Information

• Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Nationwide Gravesite Locator.
• A printed grave locator is also available in front of the lodge and at the kiosk located at Baltimore National Cemetery.
• Find A Grave – Loudon Park National Cemetery

Miscellaneous Obituaries

• Emory A. Leasure, The Sun (Baltimore) 26 March 1921, p. 10.
  Died from the effects of being gassed in France.
• Captain Lonzo R. Bice, The Sun (Baltimore) 3 November 1932, p. 12.
• Mrs. Lizzette Krumm Baer (d. 16 May 1935), The Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 1935, p. 22.
  Widow of Nathan Barer, Civil War drummer boy and doorkeeper of the Senate Diplomatic Gallery in Washington.
• Leonard Joseph Smolsky, The Sun (Baltimore) 21 August 1935, p. 17
• Charles G. Black (d. 9 January 1937), The Sun (Baltimore) 12 January 1937, p. 16
  Spanish American War veteran
• Samuel J. Cadell (d. 27 January 1938), The Sun (Baltimore) 29 January 1938, p. 15.

Newspaper Articles

• “To Be Buried by the Grand Army.” The Sun (Baltimore) 19 January 1894, p. 8.
  Regarding burial of Lawrence Fochte, sergeant of Company D, Third Maryland Volunteers.
• “National Cemetery Addition Planned.” The Sun (Baltimore) 25 June 1935, p. 21.
  Request by War Department for funds to enlarge cemetery.
• “Funds to Enlarge Cemetery Await. Five Sites for Extension of Loudon Park Considered by War Department.” The Sun (Baltimore) 7 March 1936, p. 14.
  Selection of site to enlarge cemetery would await specific authorization of funds. 
• “Loudon Park Enlarging Nears.” The Sun (Baltimore) 25 August 1936, p. 12.
  Announcement of purchase of land to enlarge cemetery expected to be announced soon by War Department. Location of property to be purchased would not be made public until after the Secretary of War approves the recommendations of the quartermaster general.
• “Baltimore Stands to Lose Landmark. Cloud Capped, Historic Home, To Be Razed For Creation of Cemetery.” The Sun (Baltimore) 3 February 1937, p. 4.
  “Unless Congress intervenes, Baltimore soon may lose one of its oldest landmarks, the historic home, Cloud Capped. It was from this home that watchers first saw the coming of the British fleet during the War of 1812. The house, soon to be razed, is in the center of the Blanchard Randall estate, on the Frederick road at North Bend….”