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A Black Patriot and a White Priest Stephen J. Ochs

A Black Patriot and a White Priest By Stephen J. Ochs

A Black Patriot and a White Priest by Stephen J. Ochs


Summary

Chronicles the intersecting lives of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain Andre Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans, the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre.

A Black Patriot and a White Priest Summary

A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans by Stephen J. Ochs

Stephen J. Ochs chronicles the intersecting lives of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain Andre Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans, the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre. Their paths converged in July 1863, when Maistre, in defiance of his archbishop, officiated at a large public military funeral for Cailloux, who had perished while courageously leading a doomed charge against the Confederate bastion of Port Hudson. The story of how Cailloux and Maistre arrived at that day and what happened as a consequence provides a prism through which to view the black military experience and the complex interplay of slavery, race, radicalism, and religion during American democracy's most violent upheaval.

About Stephen J. Ochs

Stephen J. Ochs is the author of two previous books, including Desegregating the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871--1960. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, and is chair of the history department at Georgetown Preparatory School.

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NLS9780807131572
9780807131572
0807131571
A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans by Stephen J. Ochs
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Paperback
Louisiana State University Press
2006-03-30
328
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