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A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans

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Stephen J. Ochs chronicles the intersecting lives of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain Andr??? 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 ...

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A Black Patriot and a White Priest: André Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans 2006, LSU Press, Baton Rouge

ISBN-13: 9780807131572

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A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans 2000, Louisiana State University Press

ISBN-13: 9780807125311

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