The township's soldiers, as the record names them

1861–1865 · sketches and stones, each at its own strength

Eleven men of the township's ground can be put in uniform on a record that names them, and no honest twelfth has been found. From Chapman's sketches: Andrew J. Bryant (born 1841), who came to the county in 1861 and enlisted in 1862 in Company F, 94th Ohio Infantry, fought at Murfreesboro (Stones River), and was discharged at the close of the war — an Ohio regiment and an Indiana farm, printed as the sketch gives both. Andrew J. Campbell (born 1830), brought to the township in 1835, a wagon-maker, was drafted in 1864 and placed in the 23rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry, discharged at the close of the war. The Rev. W. P. McKinsey (born 1837), who preached three years at New Carlisle's Methodist church, served nearly four years in the 40th Indiana: eight months in Company A's first sergeant's place (the sketch's wording as printed), eighteen months its First Lieutenant, much of the time in command, and twenty months Quartermaster of the regiment. John D. White (born 15 June 1841 in La Porte County), Asher White's son and New Carlisle's hotel-keeper in 1880, enlisted 19 August 1864 in the 11th Minnesota Infantry and was discharged 26 June 1865 at Gallatin, Tennessee — a Minnesota regiment for an Olive Township man, printed as the sketch prints it. Samuel Wenger (born 1841 in Darke County, Ohio) enlisted twice, in the 102nd Ohio National Guards and then for one year in the 187th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving to the war's close; he came to St. Joseph County in 1866, and stands as what he is — a veteran who chose this ground after the war, not a soldier it sent.

From the stones at Hamilton, copied by the DAR: David Eaton (died 2 October 1866, aged 36), "a valiant soldier" of an Illinois infantry regiment in 1864–65 — the chapter's two transcriptions of his stone give the regiment's number differently (5th in one reading, 8th in the other), and both print. Lewellyn Faurote (died 8 August 1865, aged 29), of the 27th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, died three months after Appomattox, of what the stone does not say. Nathaniel S. Cory Faurote, Company C, 75th Indiana Infantry. Ezra Fox, Company B, 83rd Indiana Infantry. Virgil Reynolds, Company F, 29th Indiana Infantry — whose name the Indianapolis News also carries among the War of 1812 burials in the same churchyard, a conflict printed whole in the heroes file. William Reynolds (1832–1920), marked on his stone a Civil War veteran. John McCurdy, Company G, 9th Illinois Cavalry, his stone carrying a G.A.R. marker. Sergeant Lewis Parker, Company C, 125th Indiana Infantry, as the transcription inscribes the regiment. The stones name units, not battles; no decoration is recorded for any of them in the records read, and the heroes file's decoration-absence check prints that plainly.

Sources

1. Chapman (1880), sketches of Bryant, Campbell, McKinsey, John D. White and Wenger, pp. 774–787.
2. DAR cemetery inscriptions, Hamilton Cemetery: Eaton, Faurote (both), Fox, Reynolds (both), McCurdy and Parker stones as transcribed.