Documenting Notre Dame's Student-Soldiers

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!