For the Union and the Catholic Church

For the Union and the Catholic Church
Author: Max Longley
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2015-05-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476619999

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.