Notre Dame's participation in the Civil War remembered

When the ‘Fighting Irish’ were doing the real thing

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"The First Fighting Irish" by James M. Schmidt looks at The University of Notre Dame's participation in the Civil War.

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One of the wartime students wrote later: “None were braver men or truer patriots."

He added: “Notre Dame is honored in her loyal soldier students, who showed, even to the shedding of their blood, how deeply inculcated were the lessons of patriotism which they had received from their Alma Mater.”
 

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