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Show In the Church of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame recently. recent-ly. General W. A. Olrasitead. a veteran of the civil war. was ordained a prieft of the congregation of the Holv Cross Bishop O'Gorman of Sioux Falls S D., orticuited. - General Olmstead was mustered out of the "army, at the close of the civil war with the rank of brevet brigadipr general. He had entered the service as captain in the Second New York infantry,. in-fantry,. and rose to the rank of colonel I of the Fifty-ninth New York volun-j volun-j teera.. ,A brigadier general he com. I mand-d the Firrt brigade, Third dt- vision of the Second army corps At the conclusion of the war he studied medicine and served a number of years as army surgeon. The general came to Notre Dame six years a?o and entered the seminary lie.' is-past commander of thf' Notre Dame post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a member of the Loval Lagion. .- 3 |