Chaplain William Corby Award

William Corby (Oct 2, 1833 – Dec 28, 1897) served as a Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Union Army Chaplain attached to the Irish Brigade and the University of Notre Dame president twice.

He's perhaps best known for giving general absolution to the Irish Brigade on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Only about 500 of the Brigade's original 3,000 men, remained. Of the men absolved that day, 27 were killed, 109 were wounded, and 62 were listed as missing. 

Father Corby blessing the troops was depicted in the 1891 painting Absolution under Fire by Paul Wood and the 1993 film Gettysburg. Samuel Murray’s 1910 statue of Corby, located on the same boulder as Corby stood in 1863, is the first non-general statue in Gettysburg Battlefield Park.