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1861–1945 · RUN FROM THE COUNTY SEAT; ITS ARCHIVE SURVIVES
The draft machinery that took this township's men was the county's, and its paperwork survives at the county level. The county's war offices — enrollment, draft, and veterans' administration across both centuries' wars — are archivally seated in the Indiana Historical Society collection at the University of Notre Dame Archives, and that collection holds the single richest unworked settler for this whole pass: the 1894 list of the county's veterans arranged by township, which would name Liberty Township's surviving Civil War generation as a class, a generation this build so far knows only man by man through the biographies. For the twentieth century's wars, the machinery question narrows to one unreached fact: which selective-service local board served Liberty Township in 1917–18 and in 1940–45 is not named by any carrier reached. Induction demonstrably ran through the county seat — the Gold Star Roll's entries show county men "called into service" at South Bend — but the board's number, seat, and membership for this township stand as residue (R-31-1), with the National Archives' RG 147 records and the county library's Service Notes index as the named settlers.