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![]() ![]() Kurtz in his book Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America. Their relatively unknown story was recently and expertly addressed by historian William B. 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. The mixed legacy of heroic sacrifice and bitter division of the American Civil War continues to permeate popular culture and political discourse. Undated chromolithograph of Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867), commander of the Irish Brigade, Fenian Brotherhood and O’Donovan Rossa Papers, American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives. ![]()
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