Northern Indiana Historical Society, South Bend, Indiana.
Saint Joseph County (Ind.) Civil War Records (IHS), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Civil War Records recounting the war and post-war activities of Saint Joseph County residents; with correspondence of soldiers, including Lt. Col. Alfred B. Wade and Schuyler Colfax; the records of various Saint Joseph county war offices, including registers of the sick, wounded and dead; and records of activities of several Indiana infantry regiments, among them the 73rd Indiana Infantry (1862-1924).
Index :
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties (Statistics, etc) Wade, Alfred B. Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885. Letters.
Card list of reel contents at 003. This reel includes correspondence of W.W. Frybarger, an artillery officer, and Lazarus Noble, Indiana adjutant general, but also contains copies of letters to Oliver P. Morton and an order signed by Morton as Governor; starting at 037 are papers of wartime organizations in St. Joseph county, including draft subscription lists; soldiers aid society of New Carlisle papers, including some correspondence of the Northwestern Sanitary Commission of Chicago; papers of reunions of 12th Indiana Cavalry, 1897-1920, and 128th Indiana Infantry, including newspaper accounts; papers of Co. B, Fifteenth Indiana Infantry, 1861-64, list on cards at 073; order book of various regiments, including 15th Indiana and 6th Illinois; morning reports and supply issue reports, 15th Indiana Infantry, at 097; clothing issue book at 112; roll books at 164, includes lists of officers and enlisted men and their places of birth and enlistment, ages; papers of reunions of 20th Indiana Infantry, 1888-96; casualty lists and statistics at 180; reunion papers of 36th Indiana Infantry, 1889; papers of 48th Indiana Infantry, including letter of Schuyler Colfax to E.M. Stanton, Dec. 8, 1862, order book at 190, register of sick, wounded and dead at 198, includes hospital list and reasons for admission, morning reports at 212; autograph book at 220 includes W.T. Sherman, John A. Logan, Oliver P. Morton, and various officers of the 48th Indiana; reunion papers 1889-1913 of 48th Indiana; 48th Indiana secretary's book of minutes at 238, includes photos of first brigade (Gen. Sherman) army band with oudated instruments taken from Chicago Tribune December 7, 1930.
Reunion records of 48th Indiana; various field and maneuvers accounts; at 033 begins a collection of various documents of the 73rd Indiana Infantry, including musterings, identity oaths, appointment signed by Governor Morton, telegram of sympathy to the widow of the 73rd's Lt. Col. Wade from Schuyler Colfax, 1877; roster of the regiment 1861-65 at 040, papers of the regiment start at 047, including diaries, account books, clippings mostly of Lt. Col. Alfred B. Wade; diary of 73rd kept by Wade 1861-65