LIBRARY
REL 455: American Catholicism 1775-1881: Catholics during the Civil War & Reconstruction
Theology, Spirituality, Culture and History
Books
Discovering the Civil War in Florida by ISBN: 1561642347Publication Date: 2001-10-01
books and ebooks
The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 0813208963Publication Date: 1997-12-01
A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900 by ISBN: 9780813035321Publication Date: 2011-06-12Print Books available to be borrowed (mailed)
American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 0807860441Publication Date: 2003-04-03
American Catholics by ISBN: 0195029461Publication Date: 1981-12-10Selected Table of Content (you may ask to have a chapter emailed to you)
VIII The Failure of Carroll's Plans 89
IX The Era of the Common Man 101
X Immigrants Become the Church 116
XI Westward the Course of Empire 128
XII Abolition and Civil War 143
XIII Reconstruction 158
XIV The Gilded Age 172
XV Growing Pains in the Catholic Community 184
XVI The End of the Beginning 204
XVII So Certain and Set Apart 221
XVIII Catholicism Unbound: The Church of the Twenties 234
Tribute to Catholic Irish Brigades
Forces at work prior to and during Civil War
The Potato famine drew millions of Catholic Irsh Immigrants to the U.S. - swelling the Catholic population.
Key Players in the Civil War who were Catholics
- Union General
- Sereved under Ullysses Grant in 1862 & 1863
Michael Corcoran
- Colonel of the 69th New York State Militia
- Captured at Bull Run, Prisoner of war for one year
Thomas Francis Meagher
- Organized what would become the Irish Brigade
Articles
Father Mathew's Disciples: American Catholic Support for Temperance, 1840-1920.
Growth of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States (1933 Thesis, ebook available through Google Scholar)
John Hughes and a Catholic Response to Slavery in Antebellum America
Abolitionists, Irish Immigrants, and the Dilemmas of Romantic Nationalism
Immigrants in the City: New York's Irish and German Catholics
Special Catholic Activities in War Service (WWI)
Catholic Southerners, Catholic Soldiers