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AUDIT ROW #287 · SONS OF UNION VETERANS DEPARTMENT ROSTER, READ THIS PASS
The Grand Army's county set stands at three named posts in the Department of Indiana's own roster — and the roster settles, in passing, a name the banked set carries in two forms. Coppock Post No. 378, Walkerton, 1884–1923 [SUVCW Department of Indiana G.A.R.Auten Post No. 8, South Bend, 1879–1936 and after — originally Post No. 1 of the District of St. Joseph, renumbered 17, attached for a time to Illinois as its No. 64, and returned to Indiana as No. 8, named for Private John Auten, the first St. Joseph County soldier killed in the Civil War. Notre Dame Post No. 569, about 1897–1916 — the university's own post, the county set's third member. The roster form "Coppock" supports Wars & Military Service's reading ("Jesse Coppock Post No. The full county list beyond these three named posts — every post the county ever chartered, with its town — is the item's named residue: the Indiana Archives' G.A.R. finding aid (Vol. II, arranged by county) and Howard's chapter on the county's military history (vol. 1, pp. 743–745) are the settlers, in that order.
Principal sources: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Department of Indiana, G.A.R. post roster (Coppock No. 378; Auten No. 8; Notre Dame No. finding aid Vol. II; Howard (1907), ch. XIV §3.