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

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1864

pg 477       family educated at Notre Dame and at St. Mary's.  She took a 
             lively interest in the case of the five conscripts, and wrote 
             immediately to President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton.  
             Providentially those letters were received in Washington on the 
             very day when the general telegraphed to the government the fall 
             of Savannah.  It seems evident that the Blessed Virgin this time 
             employed the excellent wife of the general to secure this favor.
                  The unexpected success of the college had given rise to the 
             desire of increasing or repairing the building.  A regular 
             petition to this effect was addressed by the council of Notre Dame 
             to the Mother House, and then by the advice of Sainte Croix to 
             Rome, asking for authorization to devote ten thousand Roman 
             crowns [scudi] to the enlargement of the University buildings.  In 
             the same document the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda was asked 
             to sanction the weekly publication of a magazine in English 
             especially devoted to the honor of the Most Blessed Virgin, in the