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1861 – 1865
When the 9th reorganized for three years, the county's company went back under a new captain: The three-years 9th Indiana was mustered at La Porte on 5 September 1861, again under Milroy, with the county's company commanded by Captain James Houghton. The regiment fought at Greenbrier (3 October 1861) and Allegheny Mountain (13 December 1861), and on the second day at Shiloh. There the county's company lost its captain: Chapman's Roll of Honor heads its officers' list with "Capt. James Houghton (9th), killed at Shiloh, 7 April 1862." The regiment re-enlisted as a veteran organization on 12 December 1863 at Whiteside, Tennessee, served out the war in the West, and was mustered out in Texas in September 1865. The 9th's two incarnations frame the county's war: the three-months company that produced its first martyr, and the three-years regiment that carried the county's flag from the war's first summer to its last.
Sources:
- Chapman, History of St. Joseph County (1880), ch. VII — Houghton's company, and the Roll of Honor entry for his death at Shiloh.
- Howard, History of St. Joseph County (1907), vol. 2 — the muster at La Porte, Greenbrier and Allegheny Mountain, Shiloh's second day, the veteran re-enlistment of 12 December 1863 and the Texas muster-out.