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1846 – 1848
The county's share: Howard gives the war a short, honest paragraph: the county's majority-Whig and abolition-leaning citizens "therefore not looked upon [the war] with any great degree of enthusiasm," but "there were a few brave soldiers from the county, however, among them: Henry J. Blowney, John H. Fisher, George F. Frank, Hugh L. Hinds, Edwin T. Lucado, John Owen, John Pendl, Moses Peltier, John B. Raymond, Albert Steinbeck, William S. Saunders, Eugene N. B. Sweetland and Frank X. Vilare." Howard's Roll of Honor repeats the same thirteen names as the county's Mexican War dead buried in county cemeteries. No company raised in St. Joseph County is named by Howard or by Chapman, and no one of the thirteen is seated on this ground by any text read; the settlement here was a decade old and a few families deep when the war came. Printed as this ground's finding: the Mexican War record of the Walkerton ground is an absence in both county histories, with the settling sources named in the closing register (Indiana in the Mexican War, 1908, and the 1887 veterans' roster), neither reachable in full text.
Sources:
- Howard, Ch. XIV §II, p. 716; Roll of Honor, p. 731.
- Howard, Ch. VIII §10 — the Lincoln settler roll, swept for any of the thirteen names; none stands there.