Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1861

pg 455       that desire it, when they need it and have the requisite 
             qualifications.  It places the Bishop of North America under a 
             certain obligation and makes interested friends of all the 
             subscribers, who look upon Notre Dame du Lac as their future home.

                             War between the North and the South

                  Contrary to all the anticipations of thinking men, war broke 
             out at the beginning of spring by the attack on Fort Sumter near 
             Charleston, and before the end of the year more than a million men 
             had taken up arms, each in defense of his rights.  For more than 
             fifteen years the South had been complaining of the North, and 
             every year the Union seemed to be threatened.  Men in Congress 
             were accustomed to those threats, which had come to be but little 
             regarded.
                  The South was in earnest, was active, and had prepared.  The 
             first cannon fired in South Carolina took the people of the North