The mixed legacy of heroic sacrifice and bitter division of the American Civil War continues to permeate popular culture and political discourse. As a growing minority in the 1860s, making up about ten percent of the United States population concentrated in the north, Catholics were embedded in this conflict. Their relatively unknown story was recently Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: Civil War Catholics – Patriotism on Trial
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: American Catholic History, Augustine Hewett, Catholic Patriotism, civil war, George B. McClellan, Irish Brigade, Isaac Hecker, John B. Purcell, John Hughes, John Ireland, Mary Surratt, Mother Angela Gillsepie, National Catholic War Council, Nuns of the Battlefield, Orestes Brownson, Peter Cooney, Philip H. Sheridan, University Archives, WIlliam Corby, William S. Rosecrans, William T. Sherman | Comment