Mishawaka Military History

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Mishawaka Military History

Wars, the home front, veterans and those who served.

Military

§ 40Mishawaka Wars, Unrest and Disasters: The County's Companies, the City's DeadMishawaka was four years old as a plat and not yet twenty as a town when its wars begin, and they begin as county wars: the town raised no regiments of its own, but its men filled two companies that the record can name…30 entry pages § 41Mishawaka's World War I Home Front, 1917–1919The founding section carries Mishawaka's service record and, for the home front, the Fourth Liberty Loan at city size. This addendum carries the rest of the home front at the size the record keeps it: the spring 1917…3 entry pages § 42Mishawaka Military History: The Units as InstitutionsMishawaka's military presence, taken as institutions rather than as wars, is one of the thinnest records in this history — and it is printed here at its true size, because its thinness is itself the fact. The city has…15 entry pages § 43Mishawaka War Heroes: The Decoration RecordThis section holds Mishawaka's decoration record: the men and women the official record itself decorated, and the acts as the citations state them. It is a thinner record than the city's roll of dead, and it is printed…16 entry pages § 44Mishawaka Veterans: The Posts and the OrganizationsMishawaka's veterans organized under three banners across a century and a half, and the surprising fact of the record is how few banners there were. One Grand Army post, chartered in 1883 and named for the town's own…15 entry pages

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Source: Mishawaka Military History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/topics/military/

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