It is with regret we announce the death of Newton Austin
Haldeman, of this city, Sergeant of Co. C, 2d regiment. He died of typhoid fever at Jefferson
Barracks hospital, on Thursday last, 15th inst., aged 24 years. Mr. Haldeman was an occasional correspondent
of this paper and his letters were copied throughout the country. A lengthy one furnished us after the battle
at Fort Donelson, was pronounced by some of our cotemporaries, the best
description published of that battle. He
was an excellent young man, a kind brother, and a dutiful son. His remains were interred for the present at
Jefferson Barracks. His brother is in
the army at the East, and as no word has been received from him for sometime
his parents fear that he too is no longer among the living.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport,
Iowa, Wednesday Morning, May 21,
1862, p. 1
