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Notre Dame and the Civil War: marching onward to victory

By James M , University of Notre Dame;Schmidt

Book information

Publisher
The History Press
ISBN
9781614230496, 9781596298798, 1614230498
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2145946 bytes)
Pages
(142 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1861-1865 -- Education and the war;Indiana;United1861-1865;United States -- History -- Civil WarWar and education;Biography;History;University of

Description

While many institutions of higher education made great sacrifices during the Civil War, few can boast of the dedication and effort made by the University of Notre Dame. For four years, Notre Dame gave freely of its faculty and students as soldiers, sent its Holy Cross priests to the camps and battlefields as chaplains and dispatched its sisters to the hospitals as nurses. Though far from the battlefields, the war was ever-present on campus, as Notre Dame witnessed fisticuffs among the student body, provided a home to the children of a famous general, responded to political harassment and tried to keep at least some of its community from the fray. At war's end, a proud Notre Dame welcomed back several bona fide war heroes and became home to a unique veterans' organization.

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