Scope and Content

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, lectures, sermons, pamphlets; minutes of the Notre Dame Literary Club, 1897-1901; a diary dating from the summer of 1905; his doctoral dissertation, "Political Status of Catholics in Colonial Maryland" (1907); letters, diaries, and printed material relating to his experience as a chaplain in World War I; and photographs.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1855-1904; Cooney's sermons and speeches; his Civil War diary, 1864-1865; manuscripts of his works, 1861-1890; a notebook describing his tour of the United States to collect material on the role of Catholic chaplains and nuns in the Civil War, 1890; clippings he collected on the Civil War, Ireland, and temperance; and printed matter including Child's Recollection of General Grant (1885) and a map of the Chickamauga battle field, 1886. Records of the...