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title	:	Memoirs of Chaplain Life : Three Years With the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac Irish in the Civil War ; No. 2
author	:	Corby, William.; Kohl, Lawrence Frederick.
publisher	:	Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0823212513
print isbn13	:	9780823212514
ebook isbn13	:	9780585195353
language	:	English
subject	Corby, William,--1833-1897, United States.--Army of the Potomac.--Irish Brigade, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Chaplains, Military--United States--Biography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation,
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	E493.5.I683 1992eb
ddc	:	973.7/78/092
subject	:	Corby, William,--1833-1897, United States.--Army of the Potomac.--Irish Brigade, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Chaplains, Military--United States--Biography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation,

Page i Memoirs of Chaplain Life

Page ii REV. WILLIAM CORBY, C.S.C., CHAPLAIN, 88TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, IN 1863. (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME ARCHIVES, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA)

Page iii Memoirs of Chaplain Life Three Years with the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac by William Corby, C.S.C. Edited by Lawrence Frederick Kohl FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York

Page iv Copyright 1992 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved LC 89-84565 ISBN 0-8232-1251-3 ISSN 1044-5315 Irish in the Civil War, No. 2 Third Printing 1996 Fourth Printing 1998 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Corby, William, 18331897. Memoirs of chaplain life : three years with the Irish Brigade in the Army of the Potomac / by William Corby ; edited by Lawrence Frederick Kohl. p. cm.(Irish in the Civil War ; 2) ISBN 0-8232-1251-3 1. Corby, William, 18331897. 2. United States. Army of the Potomac. Irish Brigade. 3. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Personal narratives. 4. Chaplains, MilitaryUnited StatesBiography. 5. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Participation, Irish American. 6. Irish AmericansHistory19th century. I. Kohl, Lawrence Frederick. II. Title. III. Series. E493.5.I683 1992 973.7'78'092dc20 89-84565 CIP Printed in the United States of America

Page v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction LAWRENCE FREDERICK KOHL ix Appendix 1: Paul Henry Wood and His Painting Absolution Under Fire 393 Appendix 2: St. Clair Mulholland and the Statues of Father Corby 397 Appendix 3: Poems on Father Corby at Gettysburg 401 Index 405 Illustrations following page xxv.

Page vii Acknowledgments Even on a small editorial project such as this, one can incur a great number of debts to those who have offered their assistance. For help with research on Corby's life and in obtaining illustrations for this volume I would like to thank Rev. James T. Connelly, C.S.C. and Brother Andrew Corsini, C.S.C. of the Province Archives Center, Priests of Holy Cross: Indiana Province, Notre Dame, Indiana; Pat Gillen of South Bend, Indiana; Albert Kuhn of Hanover, Pennsylvania; Charles Lamb and Peter Lysy of the University of Notre Dame Archives, Notre Dame, Indiana; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; A. Collin MacDonald of Leesburg, Virginia; the National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Robert H. Prosperi of Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Robert Smoger of the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana; and Steven Wright of the Civil War Library and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I would also like to thank Johanna Shields of the University of AlabamaHuntsville and my colleague in Tuscaloosa, Rich Megraw, for some excellent criticism of earlier drafts of my introduction. Finally, I must gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance for this project provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Research Grants Committee of the University of Alabama.

Page ix Introduction LAWRENCE FREDERICK KOHL IN THE SUMMER of 1863 the Irish Brigade was no longer the impressive force it had once been. Nearly two years of war had worn its thousands down to a small band of seasoned veterans. Because of their fighting reputation they had always been where the action was hottest: at Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, and Savage Station on the Peninsula; in the Bloody Lane at Antietam; before the Stone Wall at Fredericksburg. Now, late in the afternoon of July 2nd, they were once again poised to launch themselves against the Confederates, this time in a wheatfield just south of the small crossroads town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The men stood at order arms, nervously awaiting Colonel Patrick Kelly's order to advance.1

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