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1861 – 1865 · the 29th Indiana and the rest, at company strength
Union Township's company was Company K of the 29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry — not by a recruiting poster but by the roster's own geography: Howard prints the company's roll (p. 721) headed by the township's names. Its sergeants were Philip Ducomb, John R. Moon, E. Henderson, and Daniel T. Welch; its corporals included Jacob Wynn and Charles J. Swezey; its musician, in Howard's roster, was Henry Perry; and its privates included Paris Henderson, John A. Lamb, Simon S. Huyler, Dayton Henderson, and the brothers Alfred and Andrew Annis, beside the township surnames the roll carries without biographies. The company attributions print with two conflicts riding on them, registered whole's note: Chapman places Swezey and John Moon in Company K in the family sketches and in Company G in his own roster chapter — the same book against itself — and Henry Perry's company stands three ways (Company H in his sketch, Company G in Chapman's roster, Company K in Howard's). The adjutant general's residence-column rosters are the settler for all three, and no form is chosen here. The regiment the company served in was organised at Indianapolis in the late summer of 1861 and mustered 27 September 1861; it served with the Army of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland — Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign — and mustered out 2 December 1865.
The township's other men served scattered, and each stands at the strength his carriers give him. Anderson Moon, John Moon's son, served two years in the 128th Indiana on his father's Chapman sketch and died at Lakeville in 1872; neither county history's 128th county list carries him — the regiment's own roster prints a "Moon, A." in Company D, which is consistent with him and is printed as consistent, not as proof. Daniel Stonehill and Oliver H. Perry served in Company I, 155th Indiana, on three carriers. Moses Pimches stands in Chapman's roster in Company C, 48th Indiana — not a St. Joseph County company — and Howard's Bowman Cemetery list carries a "Moses Punches"; the two print unmerged, one man or two unresolved. Frederic Losch, who settled here in 1869, had served in Company H, 32nd Wisconsin, a postwar settler's war record from another state's regiment. An unnamed son of Wesley Bennett served in Company C, 96th Ohio, and lies in an unmarked grave in the West on Chapman's telling. And the township's recruiting figure stands in the military article below: John M. Asire, the militia lieutenant who raised men at Lakeville and was kept from the regular service by a gunshot wound. One sketch's chronology is flagged and not corrected: John A. Lamb's Chapman sketch marches him through "Shiloh, Stone River" in an order the calendar reverses — Chapman against the calendar, quoted as found, in the register.