🇺🇸 📖 Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause

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Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause

"Catholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war's evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery."

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