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1866– · THE FRAME IN WHICH POST NO. 197 STANDS
St. Joseph County's Grand Army stood at seven posts, and three carriers agree on the set. The Indiana Archives' GAR finding aid (county sort, read first-hand), the Sons of Union Veterans' department lists, and Howard's 1907 county history carry the same seven: Auten Post No. 8 (South Bend, 1879–1936+), Deacon No. 115 (New Carlisle, 1882–1919), Houghton No. 128 (Mishawaka, 1883–1936), North Liberty's post No. 197 (1883–1913), Coppock No. 378 (Walkerton, 1884–1923), Notre Dame No. 569 (1897?–1916 — described by Howard as the only post in the United States made up entirely of chaplains and clergy), and Eddy No. 579 (South Bend, 1897–1930). An earlier encampment-era numbering (the 1868 constitution's posts) is a different numbering world and is not conflated with this set; no North Liberty place attaches to any of those earlier posts in the carriers reached. The county's GAR generation raised a soldiers' monument exactly once in this set's towns — Mishawaka's, in Battell Park in 1884 — and the memorials file carries what that means for this town, which raised none.
IARA, Grand Army of the Republic finding aid, Vols. I–II (1982), Appendix B; SUVCW Department of Indiana post lists; Howard (1907), as quoted in the Lee manuscript compilation.