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1898 – 1899
The county's regiment was the 157th Indiana Volunteer Infantry — "Studebaker's Tigers," mustered in 10 May 1898 under Col. George M. Studebaker of South Bend, its companies raised at Knox, Elkhart, South Bend and other northern-Indiana towns; no company was raised at Walkerton. The state's own roster volume — the Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, issued by Adjutant-General James K. The county veterans index's Spanish-American rows in the letters read belong to South Bend (Hackney, Martin; Wolfe, Charles F., Pvt, 157th Infantry; Rowe, Chester Arthur, Navy) and to one man at unknown attribution — John Meisner, Company F, 157th Indiana Infantry, buried at Bowman — whose unknown is printed as unknown and who is not taken. Howard's Spanish-American burial list stands under City Cemetery, South Bend, with no name placed in a Lincoln Township cemetery.
Sources:
- Gore (Adjutant-General), Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898–1899 (1900) — the instrument; the Osceola pass's full-text method, the Walkerton string test named as settler.
- St. Joseph County veterans index — letters H, L, M, R, S, W read whole; the Spanish-American rows as found.
- Howard, Roll of Honor, p. 732 (Spanish-American burial list).