The Grand Army: seven posts in the county, none of them this town's

Indiana Archives and Records Administration, G.A.R. finding aid, Vol. II, Appendix B (STJO block), read at source; SUVCW Department of Indiana cross-checks

The Grand Army whole, counted and named: the state archive's finding aid lists seven distinct posts for St. Joseph County — Auten Post No. 8 (South Bend, 1879–1936+), Deacon Post No. 115 (New Carlisle, 1882–1919), Houghton Post No. 128 (Mishawaka, 1883–1936), Post No. 197 (North Liberty, 1883–1913), Coppock Post No. 378 (Walkerton, 1884–1923), Notre Dame Post No. 569 (1897?–1916), and Eddy Post No. 579 (South Bend, 1897–1930). The count is the aid's own, verified at source, and one trap inside it prints whole (C59): Post 197 is entered twice — as "Bowen, Joseph… Albion A. Williams – Post name / Joseph Bowen doubtful" and as "Williams, Albion A." — one post under two names, counted once; the table's accepted name is Williams, and that is the name the sibling builds carry. The Roseland test states its own result exactly: no post is seated in Roseland, no post is seated in Clay Township, and no post is named for a Clay Township man at row strength — Roseland did not exist as a town until 1916, after every post's charter era but the tail of Auten's run, and the township's veterans (Samuel Jennings among them, on the Auten Post's own 1903–04 roster in Howard) wore the South Bend post's ribbon. The one post at the town's edge is Notre Dame Post 569: both the archive and the SUVCW print its seat, literally, as "Notre Dame" — the university place, not Roseland and not a township — and Howard adds its distinction, that it was the only post in the national organization composed exclusively of chaplains and other members of a religious society. A namesake-by-namesake exhaustion for the seven posts stands as a gap (G-MEM-5), its settler the posts' descriptive books at the state archive.