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1861–1865 · quotas, aid, and the Roll of Honor counted whole
When the war came, Olive Township's first soldiers were three men with subscription lists. On the night of 19 April 1861, at the second great war meeting at South Bend, committees were appointed for every township "to solicit and collect subscriptions to aid in forming and equipping volunteer companies, and to provide for the families of such volunteers as may need assistance." For Olive, Chapman names them: J. H. Service, T. J. Garoutte and John Reynolds — the town's leading storekeeper, its future legislator, and the richest man in the county, which is to say the township put its credit where its flag was. The regimental history that follows in Chapman's chapter — the 9th, 48th, 73rd, 87th and the rest of the county's regiments, told company by company — is the county's course and is carried in South Bend's build at full size; it is not retold here.
Chapman's Roll of Honor (pp. 444–448) prints the county's dead as one alphabetical roll: ten commissioned officers by name and rank, then the non-commissioned officers and privates — 228 names by the count made for this history from the printed list. The roll gives no man's residence, and this section apportions none of it. The county's first martyr, who heads the roll's story if not its order — John Auten of Portage Township, Company I, 9th Indiana, killed on a scouting expedition 10 July 1861, the first man from the county killed by the enemy, whose South Bend funeral drew five thousand people — is the county's, printed here at frame strength so the scale of the county's loss stands behind the township's smaller, attributable share. That share is the next two articles.
Sources
- Chapman (1880), war chapter, pp. 408–449: the meeting of 19 April 1861 and township committees (p. 411); "The First Martyr" (p. 448); Roll of Honor (pp. 444–448), counted for this history.