One regiment whole: the 29th Indiana, and the township's company tie

1861–1865 · THE STANDARD REGIMENTAL RECORD; THE TIE FROM THE HAMILTON STONES

The township's one firm company-level tie in the record runs to Company F of the 29th Indiana — and the tie itself carries a printed conflict. The DAR transcription of the Hamilton Cemetery stones records a Virgil Reynolds of Company F, 29th Indiana Infantry; the Indianapolis News's burial account, reprinted by Howard, lists a Virgil Reynolds among the township's War of 1812 burials. The 29th Indiana Infantry was organized at La Porte, in the next county, in August 1861 — a regiment raised from this corner of the state. Its course, at the strength of the standard regimental record (Dyer's Compendium and the National Park Service's regimental summaries): it fought at Shiloh in April 1862, stood in the Stone's River campaign at the turn of 1863, was engaged at Chickamauga that September, and marched in the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, mustering out in December 1865. Those are the stands that carry the regiment, and any Olive Township man of Company F stood in them. The township's other Civil War men — eleven named in the wars leg from sketches and stones — stand in that leg at the strength their carriers give, most without a company tie the record preserves; and the county's regimental history whole — the 9th, 48th, 73rd, 87th and the rest, told company by company in Chapman's war chapter — is carried in South Bend's build at full size, as the wars leg itself directs, and is not retold here. The discipline of the article is the regiment's size: one regiment, one company, one disputed stone — printed at exactly that strength.

Sources:

1. Wars & Military Service, nc-war-early and nc-war-civil-men — the Hamilton stones' Virgil Reynolds, Company F, 29th Indiana, with the News conflict printed whole; Chapman's regimental history pointed to the South Bend build.
2. The regiment's course: Dyer's Compendium and the NPS regimental record for the 29th Indiana Infantry, at standard-record strength (organization at La Porte, August 1861; Shiloh; Stone's River; Chickamauga; Atlanta; mustered out December 1865).