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1861 – 1865
Chapman's chapter closes the county's war with a sentence and a roll: "More than two thousand of as brave men as ever handled a musket or drew a sword went out from this county." The regiments treated above are the county's own — the 9th in both its lives, the 15th, 29th, 48th, 73rd, 87th, 128th, 138th and 155th, the 12th Cavalry and the 21st Battery — and Chapman lists county men besides in the 35th and 99th and the 4th Cavalry, whose record here is the frame rather than the telling. No single official county death total is compiled in the histories: the price stands where the record puts it, in the company and regimental tallies — thirty-eight of the 15th's county companies, twenty of the 87th's, eleven of Company H, eleven of the battery's county men, the 48th's named dead at Iuka and Corinth — and in Chapman's Roll of Honor (pp.
445–448), the county's dead name by name with the places and dates of their deaths: Iuka, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Andersonville among them. Its officers stand first: Captain James Houghton, killed at Shiloh, 7 April 1862 · Captain Isaac M. Pettit, died of wounds received in action, 19 March 1863 · Captain Frank A. Hardman, died 15 March 1862 near Nashville · Lieutenant Seth B. Parker, killed at Chickamauga, 19 September 1863 · Lieutenant William H. Criswell, killed at Chickamauga, 19 September 1863 · Captain James M. Holliday, killed at Chickamauga, 19 September 1863 · Lieutenant Solomon H. Fountain, died 9 April 1865 of wounds received in action · Captain 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. The roll beneath them — sergeants, corporals and privates, with the battle, prison or hospital where each died — is the county's Civil War memorial in print, and the Veterans and War Heroes sections carry its names into the deep record.
Sources:
- Chapman, History of St. Joseph County (1880), ch. VII, pp. 408–453 — the "more than two thousand," the chapter's regimental list, and the Roll of Honor at pp. 445–448 with its officers' entries as printed.
- Howard, History of St. Joseph County (1907), vol. 2 — the same ground carried in the later history, with the county's soldiers' burial lists by cemetery.