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Notes 381 Prologue 1. Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns (New York: The Viking Press, 1935), 50. 2. New York Evening Post, 27 June 1932, 8. 3. Ella M. E. Flick, Chaplain Duffy of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, New York (Philadelphia: The Dolphin Press, 1935), 106. 4. Woollcott, While Rome Burns, 46–50. 5. Father Francis Duffy, Archdiocese of New York archives, Yonkers, NY. 6. Woollcott, While Rome Burns, 48. 7. Martin Green, “Father Duffy Heroic in War,” New York Sun, 27 June 1932, 15. 8. Green, “Father Duffy’s Funeral Great City Tribute,” New York Sun, 29 June 1932, 1 and 15. 9. New York Times, 29 June 1932, 21. 10. New York Times, 28 June 1932, 19. 11. Duffy, Archdiocese of New York archives, Yonkers, NY. 12. Green, “Father Duffy’s Funeral Great City Tribute,” 15. 13. William Donovan O’Neill, interview by author, 7 November 2003. 14. New York Times, 30 June 1932, 17. 15. Woollcott, While Rome Burns, 47. 16. Green, “Father Duffy Heroic in War,” 15. 17. New York Sun, 29 June 1932, 15, and New York Times, 30 June 1932, 17. Accounts of Msgr. Michael J. Lavelle’s eulogy vary, so I’ve combined reports from several newspapers. 18. New York Times, 30 June 1932, 17. 19. Francis P. Duffy, Father Duffy’s Story: A Tale Of Humor and Heroism, Of Life and Death With the Fighting Sixty-ninth (New York: George H. Doran Company , 1919), 114–115. 20. Father Francis Duffy, Archdiocese of New York archives, Yonkers, NY. Chapter 1 1. Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, “Father Duffy,” The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, 31, 1937, 139. 2. Thomas J. Shelley, “John Cardinal Farley and Modernism in New York,” (Church History, 61: 3), 360. 3. Cardinal Farley to the Most. Rev. P. P. Stagni, Archbishop of Aquila, 4 March 1913. Archdiocese of New York archives, Yonkers, NY, Cardinal Farley, I 16, 1913. 382 DUFFY’S WAR 4. Ella M. E. Flick, Chaplain Duffy of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, New York. (Philadelphia: The Dolphin Press, 1935), 18–19. 5. Observation by Thomas J. Conaty, rector of the Catholic University of America, 1 March 1897. Archdiocese of New York archives, Yonkers, NY. 6. Flick, Chaplain Duffy, 19. 7. Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders (New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1990), 220. 8. Flick, Chaplain Duffy, 41. 9. Flick, Chaplain Duffy, 66. 10. Flick, Chaplain Duffy, 67. 11. Father Duffy to Cardinal Farley, 12 January 1916. New York Archdiocese archives, Yonkers, NY. 12. New York Times, 12 July 1916, 1. 13. New York Sun, 12 July 1916, 1 and 3. 14. New York Sun, 13 July 1916, 14. The Post’s editorial ran almost verbatim on the Sun’s editorial page. 15. New York Times, 12 July 1916. 16. Jeremiah A. O’Leary, My Political Trial and Experiences (New York: Jefferson Publishing Co., 1919), 3 and 5. Capt. Michael A. Kelly wrote a biographical sketch of O’Leary that was included in the book. 17. New York Times, 20 July 1916, 1. 18. Duffy, Father Duffy’s Story, 26. 19. Duffy, Father Duffy’s Story, 30. 20. Father Francis Duffy to John Cardinal Farley, 15 December 1916, Archdiocese of New York archives, Yonkers, NY. 21. The Advocate, 14 April 1917, 4. 22. Major General John F. O’Ryan, The Story of the 27th Division, vol. 1 (New York: Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford Co., 1921), 26–27. 23. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 12 August 1916, 1. 24. The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator, 14 October 1916, 1. 25. Brooklyn Daily Standard Union, 14 August 1916, Section 2, 10. 26. The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator, 14 October 1916, 1I. 27. Father Duffy, letter to Cardinal Farley, 15 December 1916. Archdiocese of New York archives, Yonkers, NY. 28. New York Sun, 7 March 1917, 5. 29. Duffy, Father Duffy’s Story, 331. Chapter 2 1. The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator, 8 March 1917, 21. 2. From the papers of John T. Prout, copies of which are held by the estate of the late Col. Kenneth Powers, former historian of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, Westport, Conn. 3. Duffy, Father Duffy’s Story, 28. 4. O’Leary, My Political Trial, 4. 5. Rupert Hughes, Long Ever Ago. (New York: Harper & Brothers Publisher, 1918), 86–87. 6. New York Times, 12 October 1860, 1. 7. Joseph F. Hourigan, “Brigadier General Michael Corcoran, 1927–1963,” from History of the Fighting 69th, at Mr. Hourigan’s website: www.69thny.com...

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