The gaps, named with their settling sources

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What this record could not settle: A history built only on verifiable fact owes its reader the list of what it failed to verify, and where the answer lies. This section's gaps are these. (1) The name of Company F's fourth dead man, the substitute who died at Louisville on July 13, 1865, whose name word is lost in the surviving scan of Terrell's fifth volume — settled by the printed volume at the Indiana State Library or by the compiled service records. (2) The town-level division of Company I's and the 48th's rosters, and the sixteen City Hall plaque names that Chapman's Roll of Honor does not confirm — settled name by name against the adjutant general's unit rosters, the compiled service records, the Houghton Post's records, and the Mishawaka City Cemetery burial books; and, in the other direction, the city's answer for Lahman, Wilson, and Wedgworth. (3) Mishawaka's total service in the First World War — settled, if it can be, by a county pull of the Indiana Archives' statement-of-service cards. (4) The town's share of the county's 27,575 registered women of 1917–18 — settled, if anywhere, in the Woman's Committee's county reports at the Indiana Archives and the Mishawaka Enterprise run. (5) Mishawaka's Second World War death roll, the largest single want in this record — settled by joining the sea services' State Summary (next-of-kin addresses) to the Army's Honor List through the town's own wartime rolls at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library and the county genealogical society, with the circumstances of Lieutenant Eberhart's death in the same pull. (6) The balance of Mishawaka's Korean War dead among the Army's twenty-nine remaining county-only names — settled by completing the index-and-obituary cross-match that produced the Maenhout identification, and by the DPAA's Korean War accounting for Tabaczynski's case beyond the casualty file's mark. (7) The founding dates of American Legion Post 161 and VFW Post 360 — settled by the two organizations' department charter records. (8) The town's uniformed women of both world wars by name — settled by the same service-card and library pulls as (3) and (5). Each of these is a pull, not a mystery; the record stands open to every one of them, and nothing in the articles above leans on a fact any of them would supply.

Sources:

1. The sources named in each article above, at the points stated.