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

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1864

pg 480            The community had no reason to regret its advances.  The 
             devotedness of its members was appreciated by the government, the 
             generals, and the officers, whose public eulogiums testified 
             loudly to the country in what estimation their services were held.
             Out of a hundred others, here is the public testimony borne 
             recently by the commanding general of a brigade in his official 
             report after the battle of Nashville:
                  "As to the Rev. F. Cooney, chaplain of the 35th regiment of 
             Indiana volunteers, he cannot be too highly praised.  I am happy 
             to be able to point him out as one of the model chaplains of the 
             army:  gentle pious, and brave as a lion.  He marched without fear 
             in the midst of his heroic regiment, in the shadow of death, 
             affording the wounded and the dying the aids of his holy religion, 
             encouraging each soldier by his example and his words, without 
             distinction of faith or of religious opinions."
                  Such a testimony from the pen of a man who before the war was 
             at the head of the knownothing movement against Catholics is above