In addition to my book, Notre Dame and the Civil War: Marching Onward to Victory (The History Press, 2010), I have a long-term goal of documenting Notre Dame's dozens of student-soldiers, including those who attended/graduated before the war, those who enrolled after the war as veterans, and - especially - those who answered the call by leaving school in the war's first years.
There are many more to come, but the links below to previous blog posts will give you some idea of the strategies I use to identify and document them.
If you have any information you can share, please feel free to contact me at schmidtjamesm at gmail dot com
Cassius M. Brelsford - 113th Illinois Infantry (here)
James E. Taylor - 10th New York Infantry (here)
John C. Lonergan- 58th Illinois Infantry (here)
Thomas E. Lonergan - 90th Illinois Infantry (here)
Timothy E. Howard - 12th Michigan Infantry (here)
Frank Baldwin - 44th Indiana Infantry (here and here)
Orville T. Chamberlain - 74th Indiana Infantry (here and here)
Felix Zeringue - 30th Louisiana Infantry, CSA (here)
Michael Quinlan - 27th Virginia Infantry, CSA (here and here)
Pinkerton Brothers (William and Robert) - in the field with their father, Allan Pinkerton (here)
Others - Documentation/Blog Post Pending
Horace Brelsford (brother to Cassius)
George Moon - 74th Indiana Infantry
John Schutt - 74th Indiana Infantry
William F. Lynch - 58th Illinois Infantry
Robert W. Healy - 58th Illinois Infantry
John H. Fleming - 88th Indiana Infantry
James L. Winans - 100th Indiana Infantry
And more!
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Notre Dame and the Civil War
A blog chronicling the research and writing of my forthcoming book, "Notre Dame in the Civil War: Marching Onward to Victory" (The History Press, 2010)
Notre Dame and the Civil War
About Me
- Jim Schmidt
- I am a chemist by training and profession and currently work at a biotech company near Houston, TX. I have always been interested in history, and have been especially interested in the Civil War for the past 15-plus years. My interests are wide-ranging and include Civil War medicine, patent/quack medicines, 19th-century Spiritualism, slavery and abolitionists, and much more. I have been writing historical pieces for magazines and newspapers for about 15 years. My work has been published in *North & South*, *The Artilleryman*, *Learning Through History*, *World War II*, *Chemical Heritage*, and *Today's Chemist* magazines. My column, "Medical Department," has appeared regularly in *Civil War News* since September 2000. I am the author, editor, or contributor to five books on the Civil War, including "Lincoln's Labels" (2008), "Years of Change and Suffering:Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine" (2009), "Notre Dame and the Civil War (2010), "Galveston and the Civil War (2012), and a chapter in "Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History" (2012)