sentences:  LaPorte County had the largest number of Southerners north of the Wabash Valley.During the Civil War, the "Louisville Journal" noted that the 29th Indiana Regiment (mustered out of LaPorte) "may almost be regarded as a Kentucky regiment for a large majority of its members are either natives or descendants of native Kentuckians".. Three Union Camps reigned in LaPorte County helping the Union to Civil War victory.When the county was initially proposed and organized, its boundaries did not extend as far south or east as they do today.