critic of the 19th century, an indomitable logician, a disinterested lover of truth, a sage, as sharp as Aristotle, as lofty as Plato." Lord Acton visited with Brownson and later wrote that “Intellectually, no American I have met comes near him.” Family Brownson's brother, Oran, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about the same time Orestes became a Roman Catholic. One of Oran's main reasons for joining the LDS Church was its belief in authority. Two of Brownson's sons served the Union as regular Army officers during the Civil War: Major Henry F. Brownson (1835–1913) and Captain Edward "Ned" Brownson (1843–1864). Edward was published during the war under pseudonyms. Brownson's daughter Sarah Brownson (1839–1876) was an author and poet whose writings supported the war effort. Henry published a three-volume biography of his father in 1900 and also edited his father's collected works. The Convert; or, Leaves from My Experience. The Works of Orestes Brownson (20 vols., collected and arranged by Henry F. Brownson, 1882–1887) See also Sarah Brownson, daughter. References Further reading Brownson, Henry Francis (1898–1900). Orestes A. Brownson's...Life, Vol. 2, Vol 3. Detroit: H.F. Brownson. Burrows, Mark S. (1990). "The Catholic Revision of an American Myth: The Eschatology of Orestes Brownson as an Apology of American Catholicism," The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 18–43. Butler, Gregory S. (1992). In Search of the American Spirit: The Political Thought of Orestes Brownson. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Press. Carey, Patrick W. (2004). Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Dougherty, Richard J. (2003). "Orestes Brownson on Catholicism and Republicanism," Modern Age, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 324–332. Fredrickson, George M. (1993). The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Gilhooley, Leonard (1972). Contradiction and Dilemma: Orestes Brownson and the American Idea. New York: Fordham University Press. Gilhooley, Leonard (1980), editor. No Divided Allegiance: Essays in Brownson's Thought. New York: Fordham University Press. Hecker, I.T. (1887). "Dr. Brownson in Boston," The Catholic World, Vol. 45, No. 268, pp. 466–472. Hecker, I.T. (1887). "Dr. Brownson's Road to the Church," The Catholic World, Vol. 46, No. 271, pp. 1–11. Hecker, I.T. (1887). "Dr. Brownson and Catholicity," The Catholic World, Vol. 46, No. 272, pp. 222–235. Herrera, Robert A. (1999). Orestes Brownson: Sign of Contradiction. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. Krummel, Carl F. (1954). "Catholicism, Americanism, Democracy, and