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Chapman's Roll of Honor, counted whole · the tiers stated
The county's Roll of Honor was counted, not quoted — and the township's dead come out of it in tiers, because the record carries them in tiers. Chapman's roster chapter (pp. 445–448 of the 1880 history) carries the county's honour roll of its Civil War dead. Counted whole — entry by entry, the count made on the machine-readable transcription of the printed roll and printed with that method stated — it holds 231 printed entries: ten officers and 221 non-commissioned officers and privates, being 230 distinct men, Captain Thomas B. Roberts standing twice in the roll as printed, the duplication Chapman's and registered as such. Howard gives the county's dead among the 29th Indiana's enlistments alone as 38. A township total — how many men Union Township sent, or how many of them died — is printed by no carrier read, and stands as a named gap; the county's own aggregate in Chapman is "more than two thousand of her sons," and a figure of 2,576 that circulates in search extracts for this county is unattributed in every carrier read and is not relied on.
Confirmed: one. Sergeant John R. Moon, Company K, 29th Indiana, heads the township's dead at full strength: the Roll carries him — "MOON, John R., Sergeant, Co. K, 29th. — Died at Camp Nevin, Nov. 12, 1861" — his father's Union Township sketch in the same volume confirms the son, the company, and the death ("a son, John R., who was a soldier in the late war and died in camp in Kentucky"), and Howard's company roster prints him among its sergeants. Camp Nevin is in Kentucky; he died in service nine months into the war, in camp, and under the claim rule he is this town's plainly — his resting place is not stated in any carrier read and is not among the nine Civil War soldiers Howard lists for Lakeville Cemetery, and it stands as its own small gap. Probable: two, tiered apart and never merged into the confirmed count. James Hardy stands in the Roll — "HARDY, James. — Died at Nashville, Sept. 8, 1864," no company given — and a James Hardy of a Union Township household stands in Chapman's Bennett sketch (Wesley Bennett's wife was Elizabeth Hardy of Ohio, and the families intermarried), while the 128th's Company D roster carries the name; the chain makes him probably this township's, and the identity is unproven, so he prints as probable. Daniel Kiser stands in the Roll — "KISER, Daniel. — Died at Lakeville, Ind., Sept. 2, 1864" — and the same Company D roster carries his name; his entry gives a place of death, and a man who died at Lakeville may have been carried home sick, may have been a Lakeville man, or may have died at a place he was passing through — under the claim rule the place of death bears on nothing, and his residence is unproven, so he prints as probable on the roster match alone. Examined and excluded: one. William H. Moon stands in the Roll — "MOON, William H. — Killed at Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862," no company — and the 73rd Indiana's Company C fits the death exactly (killed at Stones River the same day). But no carrier read ties him to Union Township: James Moon's Chapman sketch names John's sons and contains no William H., and no sketch, roster note, or cemetery line connects him to this ground. He is excluded from the township's roll, and the exclusion prints with its reasons so a later pass can reverse it on evidence — the adjutant general's rosters, whose residence columns settle Hardy, Kiser, and Moon together, are the settler for all three open tiers.