Excommunicated from the Union
ISBN: 9780823267552
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
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Subjects: Slavery and the church;

The American Civil War helped to isolate Catholics further from the rest of American society. The service of Catholic soldiers in the Union Army did not eradicate nativism or anti-Catholicism because so many other Catholic northerners prominently opposed the war and emancipation.

Kurtz William B. :

William B. Kurtz is managing director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia and author of Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America (Fordham University Press, 2015).


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