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1898
The record searched whole: Indiana's official roster of the war, Adjutant General George W. Gore's Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War (1899), was read for every Mishawaka residence in the 157th Indiana Infantry, the regiment this county fed — read by row reconstruction from the printed volume, since the volume's flowing text separates names from their residences and remarks. The county's company in that regiment was South Bend's: Company F, organized at South Bend on February 3, 1887, whose course and whose two dead — Private Harry W. Herring, died October 17, 1898, and Private Harry O. Perkins, died August 20, 1898 — are carried in South Bend's record. Mishawaka raised no company of its own.
The four Mishawaka men: Four men of Mishawaka stand in Gore's rosters. Harry R. Ford of Mishawaka served as the regiment's sergeant major on its field and staff roll and was promoted battalion adjutant on July 11, 1898; Company F's roster carries the same man with the remark that he was mustered on the field and staff roll, and he is counted here once, as one man in two listings. William H. Hopkins of Mishawaka was first sergeant of Company E, Elkhart's company, enrolled April 26, 1898. Benjamin E. Addis of Mishawaka was a private of the same Company E. Steven Krushanzki of Mishawaka was a private and a recruit of Company F, enrolled June 23, 1898. Every one of the four came home: the regiment mustered out on November 1, 1898, and no Mishawaka death stands anywhere in Gore's record. The town's Spanish-American roll is therefore four names long, and its death roll for that war is zero — printed as the roster itself gives it.
Sources:
- George W. Gore, comp., Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898 (Indianapolis, 1899), 157th Indiana Infantry: field and staff roll, p. 69; Companies E and F rosters, read by coordinate row reconstruction.
- South Bend pass, wars-second-pass file, for Company F's organization and its two dead in Gore.