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

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1864

pg 479       much the more serious did the danger become; because there was far 
             from being anything like unity of views amongst them in political 
             matters:  the two camps were on the contrary clearly divided, and 
             were it not that the Blessed Virgin protected all, there would 
             have been quarrels; and even the shedding of blood would have 
             taken place elsewhere besides in Virginia and on the other 
             battlefields.
                  But it is a testimony which it is consoling to record, that 
             those young men who at Notre Dame du Lac represented the various 
             shades of the politics of their families and of their States, 
             lived in harmony even whilst their fathers and their brothers were 
             slashing one another some hundreds of miles away.
                  Happily at the very beginning of the war divine Providence 
             had inspired the sending of chaplains and of Sisters to the armies 
             of the North.  Their devotedness was as a buckler to protect those 
             that remained at home.  The death of several of those noble 
             victims at their post of duty and of honor increased the good will 
             of the country.