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WAR SUPPORTING DUG · CHAPMAN (1880)
Chapman's sketchbook returns one township soldier to the Civil War roll at full particulars: Oliver R. Fulmer, son of the first settler. Born to Christian and (by the sketch's line) the Fulmer household that opened the township in 1835, Oliver Fulmer married in 1854, went to California in 1860 and home in 1862, and in December 1863 enlisted in Company H of the 12th Indiana Cavalry — serving, by his sketch's itinerary, at Stone River, at Huntsville, and at the siege of Mobile, the regiment's late-war course from Tennessee to the Gulf. He came home to the township his father had settled and was farming it when Chapman wrote. His father stands behind him in the same sketch with the family's whole military arc: Christian Fulmer, drummer at thirteen in the War of 1812, Drum Major in the Mexican War, Drum Major again in the Civil War — three wars in one man's service, printed in the people addendum where the founders stand. The son's line prints here because this is the leg that keeps the roll: one name, one company, three battle credits, from the record's own page.
Principal sources: Chapman (1880), Lincoln Township sketches (Oliver R. Fulmer; Christian Fulmer).