For the Union and the Catholic Church : four converts in the Civil War / Max Longley.

"Four men joined the Catholic Church in the mid-1840s: a soldier, his bishop brother, a priest born a slave and an editor. 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Longley, Maximilian, 1971- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, Catholic.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Religious aspects.
Catholics > United States > Biography.
Converts > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
Catholic Church > United States > History > 19th century.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Every man, Catholic and non/Catholic, fell on his knees with his head bowed down"
  • "The end of religious controversy"
  • "I have the responsibilities, he the virtues"
  • "An 'heir-loom'"
  • "The radical necessity of the Church"
  • "The Catholics...will be found among the fastest friends of the Union"
  • "The devil...comes to us as a philanthropist"
  • "Cowards fearing the light of day, and skulking beneath the cover of darkness"
  • "The Know-Nothings have inaugurated a new era"
  • "Framed, no doubt, for the express purpose of corrupting the faith of Catholic children"
  • "I wish that secession had never been thought of"
  • "Called upon by both sides to fight in the battles of the country"
  • "The nations of antiquity had slaves; where are those nations now?"
  • "Unless, as a body, we besiege heaven with prayer, god will not be pacified"
  • "Waning of the prejudice against our religion, coming from the highest range of Protestant society"
  • "The most logical and effective assailants of slavery that these last three years have produced have been devout Catholics"
  • "If the general is crossing himself we are in a desparate situation"
  • "A mere inferential recognition, unconnected with political action or the regular establishment of diplomatic relations"
  • "Judea produced but one Judas Iscariot"
  • "The bishop attributes to God what is an execrable violence of men"
  • "The only country in which the Pope could seek and find a suitable and secure asylum".