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

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780807131572 Author(s): Stephen J. Ochs Format: Paperback Year: 2000 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Dimensions: 153 x 222 x 22 (w x l x h) Pages: 304 Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War

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Description: In A Black Patriot and a White Priest, Stephen J. Ochs chronicles the intersection of two lives in Civil War New Orleans — that of the first black military Civil War hero, Captain Andre Cailloux of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards, and that of the Reverend Claude Paschal Maistre, the lone Catholic clerical voice of abolition in New Orleans and one of the first white radicals to emerge in the city. Their paths converged on a humid day 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 of what happened as a consequence provides a prism through which to view the complex interplay of slavery, race, radicalism, and religion during American democracy's most violent upheaval.

Born a slave, Cailloux eventually gained his freedom, attained respectability as a cigar maker within antebellum New Orleans's Afro-Creole society, and became one of the first black officers in the Union Army during the Civil War. In death, Cailloux became a powerful mythic symbol of heroism and freedom for Afro-Creole and English-speaking blacks, as well as for thei