War Service Records: What Remains Open

1869 – 2026

The First World War's served total: still open. No published figure for the county's servicemen of 1917–18 was located any more than in the first. The settling source stands as named: the Statement of Service Cards at the Indiana Archives and Records Administration — some 135,800 cards for the state — from which a county pull is a matter of archive work, not print. The Gold Star roll counts the county's dead; it does not pretend to count the served, and neither does this history.

Terrell's county line: still open. The county's official Civil War quotas, credits and draft results stand in the tables of Terrell's Report of the Adjutant General, vol. 1 (1869) — pages 102 and 188–255 passim, as the Wars section's log names them. This pass reached Terrell in the condensed one-volume edition, Indiana in the War of the Rebellion, and that edition argues the quotas in narrative but does not carry the county tables in a form the county's line can be taken from. The settling source is the eight-volume report's first volume itself, in print or in a full scan; the line is not estimated here from anything else.

The fairgrounds camp's name: still open. The settling sources stand as named: the Saint Joseph County Civil War Records at the University of Notre Dame Archives, and the Tribune's predecessor papers on microfilm. The camp's existence is documented; its name, if it had one in print, waits there.

The unassigned tally: still unassigned, deliberately. The Roll of Honor counted in this addendum carries the county's railroad dead in its own lines — Jacob Daugherty at Chattanooga in May 1864, Simon H. Huyler and Charles M. Hanville on 1 November 1864 — but a resemblance of numbers is not an assignment, and it is not made one here.

The smaller residue of the four files: the Military section's two loose threads stay loose — which company of the 113th Engineers kept the South Bend armory in 1941, the regiment's own history giving the rendezvous but not the company; and the county's pioneer militia before April 1861, of which the county histories carry no named company, a future test in the Adjutant General's early records. The Wars section's tornado completeness — a full Storm Prediction Center county roster from 1950 and the newspaper-era record before it — remains update-cycle work, as does the St. Joseph River's full historic-crests series behind its documented 2018 peak. And Mike Muszar, missing in the ruins of Magyar Hall in August 1917, remains where the News-Times left him: the later issues of the Tribune and News-Times are still the pull, and his outcome is still not in the record reached.

Sources:

1. Terrell, Indiana in the War of the Rebellion: Report of the Adjutant General (the condensed one-volume edition, reprint) — read for the county quota tables; the tables are not carried in extractable form; the eight-volume Report, vol. 1 (1869), pp. 102, 188–255, is the settling source.
2. The gap logs of the banked Wars and Unrest, War Heroes, Veterans and Military sections of this history, whose named pulls this addendum worked; the items above are the ones that remain open after it.