For the Union and the Catholic Church: Four Converts in the Civil War

By 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. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786494220
• ISBN13: 9780786494224
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher