Father William Corby was a 29-year-old priest (ordained in 1860) who graduated from Notre Dame and served as the chaplain of the famous Irish Brigade that fought Civil War (1861-65) battles from ...

On July 2nd, 1863, Notre Dame was 20 years old, and on a Gettysburg battlefield known as The Wheatfield, Army Chaplin William Corby, a Notre Dame professor and future President of the University ...