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

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1864

pg 476       Irish in this country imagine, right or wrong, that the 
             republican party is hostile to them, three fourths of them voted 
             against him.  He and his friends were indignant at this.  Next 
             month the exemption which F. Carrier had obtained for five members 
             on whom the draft had fallen was recalled, and the post office 
             threatened, and all those privileges were to be forfeited in a 
             moment.
                  In this crisis F. Sorin did his best to direct all minds and 
             all hearts to the glorious Patroness of the Lake.  This time, as 
             so often before, she showed that her arm was not shortened and her 
             maternal heart had not grown cold.  Every member promised to say 
             one thousand Hail Marys.  F. Carrier was once more sent to 
             Washington, where after a week of long and earnest work, he 
             succeeded in having the recall of the exemption revoked.
                  Fortunately for the community Mrs. Sherman, a fervent 
             Catholic and a friend of the institution, wife of the famous 
             general of that name, had some months before taken up her 
             residence in South Bend for the sole purpose of having her young