The county's companies: the regiments Penn men marched in

1861 – 1865 · company and regiment granularity

The skeleton both histories agree on: after the 9th, the regiments "formed in part" of county men were the 15th, 29th, 35th, 48th, 73rd, 87th, 99th, 128th, 138th and 155th Infantry, the 4th and 12th Cavalry, and the 21st Battery (Chapman). Howard prints the county companies one by one. Company I of the 9th Indiana — the first company out, three-months and three-years — "lost three officers killed in battle and one who died of wounds received in battle; likewise three privates killed in battle and fifteen who died of wounds or from disease"; it fought from Philippi and Carrick's Ford through Green Brier and Allegheny to the second day at Shiloh. Company B of the 15th "lost six men in killed and twelve from wounds or disease." County men stood in Companies C, F, G, H and K of the 29th, of whom Howard counts "five were killed in battle, one was drowned in the Tennessee river, four died at Andersonville, and twenty-eight died of wounds or disease." The 48th took three full county companies — B, E and F; at Iuka it lost 116 killed and wounded of 420 engaged, and "lost in battle during its four years' service two hundred and thirteen men, killed and wounded"; its road ran Iuka, Corinth, Vicksburg and Atlanta. Company C of the 73rd rode Streight's raid — Colonel Gilbert Hathaway mortally wounded at Blount's Farm, 2 May 1863, the surrender to Forrest at Cedar Bluffs the next day — and held the Decatur lines against Hood in October 1864; "of the members of Company C two were killed in battle, two accidentally killed, one killed in military prison, while twenty-one died of wounds or disease." Company K of the 87th stood at Perryville, Chickamauga ("losing forty killed, one hundred and forty-two wounded and eight missing") and Mission Ridge. Company D of the 128th was "made up wholly from St. Joseph county"; Company H of the 138th (hundred-days) and Company I of the 155th — whose whole regimental loss Chapman gives as one man, Francis Sauls, died at Indianapolis 6 May 1865 — complete the infantry. Company H of the 12th Cavalry lost eleven, "five died from wounds, and the remainder from disease" (Chapman and Howard agree). The 21st Battery, principally St. Joseph and LaPorte men, lost from the county eleven who died of wounds or disease by Chapman's count; Howard's battery figures run "killed in action, two; died of wounds, one; died of accidental injury, two; died of disease, twenty-one" for the battery whole. These are the companies a Penn Township enlistment meant; the next article names the Penn men the record ties to them.

Sources:

1. Chapman, Ch. VII, pp. 412–444 (county skeleton and regimental sketches).
2. Howard, Ch. XIV §1, pp. 718–731 (company rosters and losses as quoted).