“A Spirit Sensitively Alive to the Maintenance of Right:” Joseph-Caleb Paradis
(Originally published May 27, 2016. Updated May 28, 2018, with additional details). Of the two and a half million people who enlisted in the Union army during the Civil War, some 40,000 or so were French-Canadians, or Franco-Americans born in the US. An uncertain number of Confederate soldiers were also of Cajun, French or French-Canadian […]