The Catholic Herald and Visitor and the Catholic.

The article discusses Roman Catholic newspapers and their alleged influence on the opinions of Catholics in Pennsylvania during the U.S. Civil War. The article focuses upon the weekly newspapers the "Catholic Herald and Visitor" and the "Catholic." The article argues that the newspapers are good sources for Civil War historians and provide perspective on the differences and similarities between Catholics and Protestants during the war, as well as among Northern Catholics alone. According to the author, both newspapers celebrated Union military victories and supported the administration of former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, but were ambivalent and sometimes hostile toward the idea of the emancipation of African American slaves and what is termed radical abolitionism.