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

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1864

pg 482       more loved, in a better position to do good.
                  A similar scene was enacted twice in regard to F. Paul Gillen 
             in the army of the Potomac; it was found equally impossible to 
             recall him, although the state of his health seemed imperatively 
             to demand it.
                  When F. Corby returned to Notre Dame after three years' 
             service with the army of the Potomac, it required a positive order 
             to tear him away from amidst the dangers that he had over and over 
             again confronted without showing the least symptoms of fear.  He 
             had been literally present at all the battles of the Peninsula 
             under McClellan and Meade, and afterwards under Grant.  He also, 
             and more frequently than any other, had marched amongst bullets 
             and balls, and under the same aegis as his confreres had never 
             received the slightest wound.  All of them had unbounded 
             confidence in the protection of the Blessed Virgin; they placed 
             their trust in her, and were neither confounded nor forgotten.
                  The Rev. Father J. Dillon, director of the missioner