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ID	89497
Title of Article	Thank you for your service
Notes	Thomas LeFevre
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	David A. Erwin's headstone with veteran flag
Date	May 27, 2023
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Civil War Veterans, Rice Cemetery, Memorial Day

ID	64345
Title of Article	Wakarusa celebrates ag traditions
Notes	Wakarusa Historical Society's AG Days
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Volunteers demonstrate threshing at Wakarusa Historical Ag Days; Nancy Tooker spinning, Alison Robinson cross-stitching; Civil War re-enactors prepare cannon
Date	August 20, 2018
Page	A3
Subjects	Agriculture, Wakarusa, IN, Wakarusa Historical Society

ID	63035
Title of Article	Goshen local reveals known story of Rebel Bulldog
Notes	Jason Lantzer; Rebel Bulldog: The Story of One Family, Two States and the Civil War
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Lantzer
Date	December 14, 2017
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Local Authors, Civil War

ID	60860
Title of Article	Civil War veteran gets a proper gravestone
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Williams' headstone
Date	October 26, 2016
Page	A3
Subjects	Civil War, Veterans, Grace Lawn Cemetery

ID	60129
Title of Article	National Civil War shooting contest coming to Bristol this weekend
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	ACWSA members
Date	June 9, 2016
Page	A2
Subjects	Civil War, Shootings, Guns

ID	53206
Title of Article	Civil War cannon repaired, returned to the courthouse
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of workers & cannon
Date	November 8, 2013
Page	A3
Subjects	Elkhart County Council, Goshen, Civil War

ID	50916
Title of Article	Restoring honor: gravestone of Capt. Orville Tyron Chamberlain, Medal of Honor winner, cleaned up by volunteers
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Jack Sanders
Date	October 11, 2012
Page	A3, A5
Subjects	Grace Lawn Cemetery, Chamberlain, Orville T., Medal of Honor, Civil War Veterans

ID	47451
Title of Article	Civil War monument staying put
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of monument
Date	March 12, 2011
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Rice Cemetery, Moore, Dick (Mayor), Government, Elkhart City

ID	47453
Title of Article	Mayor decides not to push for Civil War monument relocation
Notes	'Point of View' column, written by Dick Moore
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	March 12, 2011
Page	A4
Subjects	Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Downtown Elkhart Redevelopment, Moore, Dick (Mayor)

ID	47049
Title of Article	Wanted: a nice downtown home for a bronze Civil War soldier
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos of monument
Date	January 20, 2011
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Main Street, Elkhart, Downtown Elkhart Redevelopment, Rice Cemetery

ID	2766
Title of Article	Unknown Civil War soldier identified
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of family members
Date	October 31, 2002
Page	A1
Subjects	Canell Family, Civil War Veterans

ID	8195
Title of Article	Elkhart shaped by Civil War volunteers
Notes	(Elkhart/History envelope)
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Civil War monument at Rice Cemetery
Date	February 21, 1999
History #	Elkhart Truth Collection
Page	A3
Subjects	Civil War

ID	39027
Title of Article	Indiana's 28th Regiment: Black soldiers for the Union
Notes	The Indiana Historian
Source	Other
Location	Indiana History File
Picture Caption	drawings
Date	January 1, 1994
History #	17b
Subjects	Civil War, War, African-Americans, Black History

ID	8193
Title of Article	Civil War plaque replaced
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo
Date	November 14, 1991
Page	B1
Subjects	Civil War

ID	22062
Title of Article	Civil War plaque replaced
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo
Date	November 14, 1991
Page	B1
Subjects	Island Park, Historical Markers

ID	8191
Title of Article	Letters from the war
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	August 4, 1991
Page	E1-E3
Subjects	Civil War

ID	25876
Title of Article	Ambrose Bierce chronicled Civil War horrors
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos
Date	October 5, 1986
Page	A1, A7
Subjects	Bierce, Ambrose, Local Authors, Civil War

ID	8189
Title of Article	A trek through time (and) Retracing the footsteps of 'The Bloody 9th'
Notes	AM section
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos
Date	November 2, 1985
Page	3-5
Subjects	Civil War

ID	17539
Title of Article	County men in Co. C. (9th Indiana Voluteers)
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Photo
Date	November 2, 1985
Page	7 AM Section
Subjects	Civil War

ID	46887
Title of Article	Monument to Elkhart's last Civil War veteran, Capt. John Newton Irish.
Notes	R Elk 917.728 F62r v. 3
Source	Flitcraft Scrapbook
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo 2
Date	June 18, 1984
Page	53
Subjects	Isbell-Ermis House

ID	17540
Title of Article	The CCC remembered.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Illustration
Date	January 10, 1981
Page	2
Subjects	Civil War Veterans

ID	17538
Title of Article	Stories wanted about County men in Civil War.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Illustration
Date	May 2, 1979
Page	1
Subjects	Civil War

ID	21084
Title of Article	Stories wanted about County men in civil war.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Illustration
Date	May 2, 1979
Page	1
Subjects	Haradine, Ada, Hapner, Nelson, Civil War Veterans

ID	8188
Title of Article	Stories wanted about County men in Civil War
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Illus. of Franklin Hapner grave
Date	May 2, 1979
Page	1
Subjects	Civil War

ID	38255
Title of Article	Civil War nurse was daughter of a conductor on Underground Railroad
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Elkhart County History File
Picture Caption	photo of gravestone
Date	January 6, 1979
History #	179a
Subjects	Underground Railroad, Civil War, Pine Creek Cemetery, Martin, Arsinoe

ID	7257
Title of Article	Civil War's youngest soldier lived here
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo
Date	October 25, 1976
Subjects	Brown, Avery, Veterans, Civil War Veterans, Grace Lawn Cemetery

ID	25675
Title of Article	Civil War's youngest soldier lived here
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Elkhart City History File
Picture Caption	photo of drum & markers
Date	October 25, 1976
History #	706
Subjects	Brown, Avery, Civil War, Grace Lawn Cemetery, Civil War Veterans

ID	15535
Title of Article	City's first mayor was Civil War veteran
Notes	Elkhart Truth - Elkhart Mayors Series envelope. 1st mayor (1875-1876)
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Henry C. Wright
Date	September 18, 1976
History #	Elkhart Truth Collection
Page	A.M. Section, p. 10
Subjects	Wright, Henry C. (mayor), City's Mayors Series, Mayors, Elkhart, Civil War Veterans

ID	32446
Title of Article	Trail of Morgan's Raiders in Indiana revisited
Source	South Bend Tribune
Location	Indiana History File
Picture Caption	photos, map
Date	December 14, 1975
History #	116
Subjects	Indiana, History of, Civil War

ID	43696
Title of Article	Picnic among '76 salutes
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Civil War monument
Date	July 13, 1975
Subjects	Bicentennial, Monuments, Civil War Monument

ID	99213
Title of Article	Pre-Civil War Lumber Barges Run By Gray
Notes	Simon Gray
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Drawing of Gray
Date	Nov 17, 1971
Subjects	African-Americans, They Had A Dream Series, Elkhart Truth

ID	99102
Title of Article	Mary Bowser, Spy For Union, In Civil War
Notes	Mary Elizabeth Bowser
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Drawing of Bowser
Date	Aug 28, 1970
Subjects	African-Americans, They Had A Dream Series, Elkhart Truth

ID	98979
Title of Article	Barney Ford Was Power In West After Civil War
Notes	Barney L. Ford
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Drawing of Ford
Date	Feb 02, 1970
Subjects	African-Americans, They Had A Dream Series, Elkhart Truth

ID	98957
Title of Article	Carney, In Civil War, Awarded Medal of Honor
Notes	Sgt. William H. Carney
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Drawing of Carney
Date	Dec 01, 1969
Subjects	African-Americans, They Had A Dream Series, Elkhart Truth

ID	8578
Title of Article	Two Illustrious Men From City's Past Linked By Civil War Heroism
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm-Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of grave marker
Date	December 6, 1966
Subjects	Congressional Districts, Conn, Charles Gerard, Col., Chamberlain, Orville T., Civil War

ID	33941
Title of Article	Historical marker in new location
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Photo of Darcy & Dana Royce at regiment marker
Date	June 27, 1966
Subjects	Civil War, 11th Michigan Regiment, White Pigeon, MI

ID	32567
Title of Article	(no title)
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Indiana History File
Date	February 21, 1966
History #	17a
Subjects	Civil War, War

ID	8186
Title of Article	Civil War
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Elkhart City History File
Date	July 23, 1965
History #	1091
Subjects	Civil Rights Agency (Elkhart)

ID	34016
Title of Article	A soldier of another era
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Elkhart City History File
Date	June 23, 1965
History #	1091
Subjects	Mow, Mark, Civil War, Veterans, Elkhart County Pioneers

ID	32568
Title of Article	Indiana and the Civil War
Notes	Indianapolis Star Magazine
Source	Other
Location	Indiana History File
Picture Caption	drawings, photos
Date	December 6, 1964
History #	41
Subjects	Civil War, War

ID	7397
Title of Article	Indiana in the Civil War
Notes	Indianapolis Star Magazine
Source	Other
Location	Indiana History File
Picture Caption	photos
Date	April 12, 1964
History #	41
Subjects	Civil War, War

ID	39026
Title of Article	Indiana and the Civil War
Notes	Indianapolis Star Magazine
Source	Other
Location	Indiana History File
Picture Caption	photos
Date	April 29, 1962
History #	17
Subjects	Civil War, War

ID	74381
Title of Article	Monument honors 'The Heroes Who Fought and Fell'
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	drawing of monument
Date	May 27, 1961
Subjects	War Memorial Monument, Civil War Monument, Rice Cemetery

ID	74373
Title of Article	Elkhartan's Civil War diary...
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	December 16, 1960
History #	775

ID	7258
Title of Article	He sleeps in Grace Lawn... Avery Brown
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Avery Brown grave site; Raymond Ervin
Date	May 29, 1958
Page	1, 2
Subjects	Brown, Avery, Veterans, Civil War Veterans, Grace Lawn Cemetery

ID	8181
Title of Article	Some Elkhart Civil War history
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	November 1957
Subjects	Civil War, History, Elkhart County

ID	22071
Title of Article	End comes for 'Captain' Irish
Notes	Elkhart Daily Truth obituary
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Elkhart City History File
Picture Caption	photo of John Irish
Date	March 14, 1940
History #	237
Subjects	Isbell-Felthouse Lumber Co., Civil War, Veterans

ID	37466
Title of Article	Last Civil War soldier honored by Women's Relief Corps
Notes	see also Winey Book 4; page 24
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of bouquet presentation to Capt.John , Mrs. Ethel Probst, Mrs. Adelia Probst, Mrs. M. A. Mock, Mrs. Elmer Peabody, Mrs. Ilo Fuller, Mrs. Edna Schuele, Mrs. Nora Tully, Emerson Martin, Rev V. L. Palmer & Roy Vance
Date	December 18, 1939
Page	24; Book 4
Subjects	Civil War Veterans, Women’s Relief Corps. No. 5, Irish, John N.

ID	4549
Title of Article	City's oldest resident dies at age of 96
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Elkhart City History File
Picture Caption	photo of deceased
Date	December 15, 1930
History #	216
Subjects	Burton, Alexandria, Oldest Living Persons, Civil War, Veterans

ID	40058
Title of Article	A. G. Manning, old Civil War veteran, writes record of his experiences
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	August 4, 1927
Subjects	Manning, A. G., Civil War Veterans