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1861 – 1865 · company and regiment granularity
The skeleton both histories agree on: after the 9th, the regiments "formed in part" of county men were the 15th, 29th, 35th, 48th, 73rd, 87th, 99th, 128th, 138th and 155th Infantry, the 4th and 12th Cavalry, and the 21st Battery (Chapman). Howard prints the county companies one by one. Company I of the 9th Indiana — the first company out, three-months and three-years — "lost three officers killed in battle and one who died of wounds received in battle; likewise three privates killed in battle and fifteen who died of wounds or from disease"; it fought from Philippi and Carrick's Ford through Green Brier and Allegheny to the second day at Shiloh. Company B of the 15th "lost six men in killed and twelve from wounds or disease." County men stood in Companies C, F, G, H and K of the 29th, of whom Howard counts "five were killed in battle, one was drowned in the Tennessee river, four died at Andersonville, and twenty-eight died of wounds or disease." The 48th took three full county companies — B, E and F; at Iuka it lost 116 killed and wounded of 420 engaged, and "lost in battle during its four years' service two hundred and thirteen men, killed and wounded"; its road ran Iuka, Corinth, Vicksburg and Atlanta. Company C of the 73rd rode Streight's raid and held the Decatur lines against Hood in October 1864; "of the members of Company C two were killed in battle, two accidentally killed, one killed in military prison, while twenty-one died of wounds or disease." Company K of the 87th stood at Perryville, Chickamauga ("losing forty killed, one hundred and forty-two wounded and eight missing") and Mission Ridge. Company D of the 128th was "made up wholly from St. Joseph county"; Company H of the 138th (hundred-days) and Company I of the 155th complete the infantry. Company H of the 12th Cavalry lost eleven, "five died from wounds, and the remainder from disease." The 21st Battery, principally St. Joseph and LaPorte men, lost from the county eleven who died of wounds or disease by Chapman's count. These are the companies a Liberty Township enlistment from the Walkerton ground meant; which of their men were this ground's is the next article's harder question.
Sources:
- Chapman, Ch. VII, pp. 412–444 (county skeleton and regimental sketches).
- Howard, Ch. XIV §1, pp. 718–731 (company rosters and losses as quoted) — carried at the same strength as the Osceola pass read them.