This collection of letters comes from the Lynch family, an Irish Catholic immigrant family who first settled in Cheraw but over the generations would become active, both in commerce and religious leadership, in larger South Carolina cities such as Charleston and Columbia. The University of South Carolina Press published For Church and Confederacy in 2019, a collection of letters from the Civil War years and just prior. In this follow-up volume, Curran continues the story of the Lynch family from the outset of Reconstruction to the Redemption efforts by Southern Democrats to undo civil rights gains made in the postwar period, approx. 1866–1882. These letters show a once prosperous, Confederate-sympathizing family navigating the Southern loss alongside a divided clergy and an uncertain way forward for Catholicism in the South.