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1880 · Chapman's roll, counted entry by entry
The roll and its rule: Chapman's Roll of Honor (pp. 444–448) is a single county-wide alphabetical list — officers first, then non-commissioned officers and privates — giving a name and usually a place and date of death, and no township for any name. It was counted entry by entry for this section, one printed entry to one count: 232 printed entries, 231 distinct named persons. The one-person difference is Chapman's own doing: Capt. Thomas B. Roberts is printed twice, once among the officers and again among the privates ("Roberts, Thomas B — Died July 4, 1862"). The duplication stands in the count and is flagged, not silently corrected. The officers, ten, stand whole: Capt. James Houghton, killed at Shiloh, 7 April 1862; Capt. Isaac M. Pettit, died of wounds, 19 March 1863; Capt. Frank A. Hardman, died 15 March 1862 near Nashville; Lieut. Seth B. Parker, killed at Chickamauga, 19 September 1863; Lieut. William H. Criswell, killed at Chickamauga, 19 September 1863; Lieut. Solomon H. Fountain, died 9 April 1865 of wounds; Capt. Thomas B. Roberts, died 4 July 1862; Chaplain Joseph R. Albright, died of disease, 5 December 1862; Surgeon Samuel Higginbotham, died of disease, 29 May 1863; Capt. James M. Holliday, killed at Chickamauga, 19 September 1863. The 222 non-commissioned entries were tallied by initial (H 32, M 30, S 26, B 18, W 16, R 13, K 11, P 10, G 10, and the balance across the alphabet); the full list stands in Chapman, pp. 445–448, and the page images are the verification settler for any single name — the two transcriptions of the roll already disagree on individual dates (Ira A. Wilson's death is rendered "died at Knoxville, Tenn., July 14, 1864" in one and "died from accident at Washington, June 3, 1865" in the other), and those rendering conflicts are printed in this section's evidence, not resolved by preference.
The Penn cross-identifications: the following men are on Chapman's county roll AND carry an independent Penn Township tie — a company roster place in Howard plus a place in Howard's Penn cemeteries roll, next article — and each tie is stated rather than assumed. Solomon Michael (Company I, 9th): Chapman's roll reads "Michael, Solomon — Died at Mishawaka, Ind., July 11, 1862"; the place of death alone would not prove Penn residence, and it is the roster place and the burial-roll place together that tie him. Capt. James Houghton captained Company I of the 9th (three-years) and lies in the Penn roll; Capt. James M. Holliday, lieutenant to captain in Company K of the 87th, likewise. Lieut. Seth B. Parker of Chapman's roll is Howard's "Seth B. Parks," in the Company I roster and the Penn roll both — Chapman prints PARKER; Howard prints PARKS, twice; both printings stand, unharmonized. Capt. Isaac M. Pettit (Company I) stands in the Penn roll as "Capt. J. M. Pettit" in the transcription — the initial as rendered, printed as rendered. Lieut. William H. Criswell (Company I) stands there as "Capt. Wm. H. Cresswell." Lieut. Solomon H. Fountain was of Company D, 128th, and stands also in Howard's list of soldiers in southern graves. Ira A. Wilson was a recruit of Company E, 48th; Abraham S. Schultz a private of Company F, 29th; and Daniel L. Shank of Chapman is Howard's "Daniel L. Shanks," corporal, Company F, 29th, in the southern-graves list too. That is the Penn share of the county roll as far as cross-identification carries it — stated as cross-identification, never as a township list Chapman did not print.
The first martyr is not Penn's: Chapman: "John Auten, a member of Co. I, Ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, was killed in a scouting expedition the afternoon of July 10, 1861, being the first man from St. Joseph county killed by the enemy. He was a son of Abram Auten, of Portage township." Howard adds that he was born on Sumption Prairie. Portage and Sumption Prairie are not Penn ground, and Auten is printed here precisely so he is not taken for it. A different man, Mahlon Auten — a private of Company I, 155th, in Howard's roster — stands in the Penn burial roll, and the two Autens are not merged.
Sources:
- Chapman, Roll of Honor, pp. 444–448, counted from the transcriptions checked against each other; "The First Martyr," pp. 448–449.
- Howard, Ch. XIV §1 rosters and §2 lists, pp. 718–733 (cross-identifications); §2 Penn Township cemeteries roll, pp. 734–735.