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The standing discipline · read first
A small township's war record is mostly a county record, and this section refuses to pretend otherwise. St. Joseph County's soldiers marched in companies raised at South Bend and Mishawaka; its dead were printed on county rolls that do not say which township a man slept in. The rule of this section is the rule of the whole build: a name is New Carlisle's or Olive Township's only where the record itself attributes him — a sketch that says where he lived, a stone in the township's ground, a state roll that gives his birthplace or home of record as this town. The county's numbers are printed whole, as the county's. Where the record was searched and the town does not appear, the negative prints as a finding, with the search named. What follows is therefore shorter than a city's war file and, the build holds, truer.
Sources
- Chapman (1880), war chapter and Roll of Honor, pp. 408–449; Howard (1907), vol. 1 — both read first-hand.