The 29th Indiana: the county's roster, the township names inside it, and the thirty-eight

1861 – 1865

The regiment: the Twenty-ninth went out under Colonel John F. Miller of South Bend, "who afterwards became a distinguished general, and after the war a United States Senator." It was mustered into service at LaPorte on 27 August 1861, joined Rousseau's command in Kentucky that October, moved against Bowling Green in February 1862, and fought on the second day at Shiloh, 7 April 1862. It was present at the siege of Corinth, stood with Rosecrans at Murfreesboro and was engaged at Stone's River on 31 December 1862 and 1 January 1863, "losing in that battle many men and officers"; it marched to Chattanooga by way of Tullahoma and "lost heavily in the great battle of Chickamauga." The regiment veteranized at Bridgeport, Alabama, on 1 January 1864; after the veteran furlough it was at Chattanooga, at Decatur, Alabama, and at Chattanooga again; in May 1865 it was in a skirmish at Dalton, Georgia, then marched to Marietta, where it was stationed until it was mustered out in October 1865.

The county's enlistments, and Howard's tally of their dead: Howard prints the St. Joseph County enlistments in the regiment by company — the field and staff (Miller; Major Henry J. Blowney, the Mexican War veteran; Quartermaster James B. McCurdy; Chaplain Joseph C. Reed; Surgeon Louis Humphreys; Assistant Surgeons John M. Stover and Jacob R. Brown; Captain Frank A. Hardman; Lieutenants John C. Myers and Henry Hain) and the county men of Companies C, F, G, H and K. At the foot of the lists he tallies the foregoing himself: "five were killed in battle, one was drowned in the Tennessee river, four died at Andersonville, and twenty-eight died of wounds or disease" — thirty-eight dead of the county contingent he prints, Captain Hardman among them (Chapman's Roll carries Hardman: "Died March 15, 1862, near Nashville, Tenn."). The tally is Howard's, printed as his; this section does not re-derive it name by name, because the lists as scanned do not carry every name cleanly, and a recount built on garbled type would be a worse record than the historian's own arithmetic.

The township discipline inside the roster: Company F, the Irvin party's company, was a county company, not a township one — its sergeants and corporals (Timothy Paige, Orrin R. Stillson, John Taylor, Owen M. Eddy; Levi H. Sipes, Daniel L. Shanks, Alden Whitney, John Glass, Charles W. Schenck, Zachariah Allcock, Robert Shields, Charles W. Groff) and its privates ran to the whole county's families. David B. Miller, who had gone out in Company I of the 9th for three months and re-enlisted in Company F of the 29th, was a son of Green and German townships, and stands in the roster as proof of the company's breadth. this section claims from Company F's roll only the men a second record ties to the two townships: Hain, above, and the identification next.

William H. Augustine — an identification, printed with its basis: Company F's privates include William H. Augustine. Chapman's Harris Township chapter places Henry Augustine on Section 15 of Harris Township in 1831, among the township's first settlers, and no other Augustine household stands in the county record read. A young Augustine of military age in 1861, in the very company the Irvin party joined out of Harris Township, is on that convergence — the surname in the township's settler roll, the company, the date — entered here as a Harris Township man, as an identification and not a proof. The settling sources are the same pair named for the Irvin thirteen: Terrell's roster residence for the man, and the 1860 census for the family.

Sources:

1. Howard (1907), vol. 1 — the 29th's history and the county enlistment lists whole, with the tally of the dead and the promotions.
2. Chapman (1880), ch. VII and the Roll of Honor — the regiment's county rosters; Hardman's Roll entry.
3. Howard (1907), vol. 2 — the David B. Miller sketch, for Company F's county breadth.