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1861 – 1864
The 15th's county companies left a complete little ledger of loss: St. Joseph County men served in the 15th Indiana from its organization in 1861 — Company B's papers survive among the county's Civil War records at the Notre Dame Archives, order books and morning reports included. Chapman's summary of the loss in the county's companies is exact and is printed here as the record gives it: 5 killed in battle, 1 drowned in the Tennessee River, 4 died in Andersonville prison, and 28 died of wounds or disease — thirty-eight men. Among the twenty-eight was a captain: the Roll of Honor carries "Capt. Frank A. Hardman, died 15 March 1862, near Nashville." Andersonville's four names stand in this county's record a full two years before the prison's name became a synonym; the 15th's companies were among the regiments whose captured men filled it.
Sources:
- Chapman, History of St. Joseph County (1880), ch. VII — the loss summary for the county's companies of the 15th (5 / 1 / 4 / 28), and the Roll of Honor entry for Capt. Hardman.
- University of Notre Dame Archives, Saint Joseph County (Ind.) Civil War Records — the surviving papers of Co. B, 15th Indiana Infantry, 1861–64.