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- Title
"Storming Heaven for Charleston": The Lynch Family and the Civil War.
- Authors
Emmett Curran, Robert
- Abstract
The Irish Immigrants Conlaw Peter and Eleanor (Neison) Lynch in the upcountry South Carolina town of Cheraw raised a dozen children, six of whom were impacted by the Civil War in a significant way and made considerable contributions to it. Indeed the Lynches constituted the largest Catholic sibling group involved in the conflict, and, arguably, their collective involvement was as significant as that of any Catholic family in North or South. The particular involvement of the oldest, Patrick as bishop of Charleston, and of Ellen, the second daughter, as mother superior of the Ursuline Community in Columbia, in very different ways proved noteworthy. The war, to which they were so committed, in the end cost them any hope of realizing the audacious dream they had for Catholicism in the Deep South.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LYNCH, Patrick; CATHOLIC Church; HISTORY of Charleston, S.C.; RELIGION &; the American Civil War, 1861-1865; CATHOLIC Church history; AMERICAN Catholics; LYNCH, John; NINETEENTH century; UNITED States history
- Publication
U.S. Catholic Historian, 2017, Vol 35, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0735-8318
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cht.2017.0007