The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
1898
The county's war: St. Joseph County's Spanish-American War was fought by South Bend's companies of the 157th Indiana — the regiment the South Bend build follows as "Studebaker's Tigers and the two South Bend companies" — and the county's part stands in that build and in Mishawaka's (whose four men in the Adjutant General's roster report were found by residence: a sergeant major of the field and staff, a first sergeant and a private of Company E, and a recruit of Company F, all Mishawaka, all mustered out 1 November 1898, no deaths).
The sweep for this ground: the same instrument — Gore's Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, the Adjutant General's official roster report, read whole — was swept for these townships, and it returns nothing: no man with a residence of Granger (the village had a post office and a station by 1898, and a residence could have said it), none of Harris or Clay. The only "Granger" in the volume is a surname — Private Herman E. Granger, in a privates list — and it is printed here so the negative is not mistaken for an oversight: the place-name was searched, and what it found was a man, not a place. The townships' Spanish-American record at the roster's strength is therefore a negative entire: no company, no name, no death.
Sources:
- Gore, Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War
- The South Bend and Mishawaka builds — the county companies' frame.