Author: | Max Longley | ISBN: | 9781476619996 |
Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers | Publication: | May 23, 2015 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Max Longley |
ISBN: | 9781476619996 |
Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
Publication: | May 23, 2015 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Four men joined the Catholic Church in the mid–1840s: a soldier, his bishop brother, a priest born a slave and an editor. For the next two decades they were in the thick of the battles of the era—Catholicism versus Know-Nothingism, slavery versus abolition, North versus South. Much has been written about the Catholic Church and about the Civil War. This book is the first in more than half a century to focus exclusively on the intersection of these two topics.
Four men joined the Catholic Church in the mid–1840s: a soldier, his bishop brother, a priest born a slave and an editor. For the next two decades they were in the thick of the battles of the era—Catholicism versus Know-Nothingism, slavery versus abolition, North versus South. Much has been written about the Catholic Church and about the Civil War. This book is the first in more than half a century to focus exclusively on the intersection of these two topics.