Dark lanterns : secret political societies, conspiracies, and treason trials in the Civil War / Frank L. Klement.
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Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | University of Texas At Tyler Stacks - 3rd Floor | E458.8 .K673 1984 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0000000792713 |
Bibliography: p. 245-253.
Includes index.
George Bickley and the knights of the Golden Circle -- The Union leagues : patriotic secret societies -- Phineas C. Wright, the Order of American Knights, and the Sanderson expose -- H. H. Dodd, the Sons of Liberty, and the Carrington expose -- The Holt report on secret societies -- The northwestern Confederacy scheme and the Indianapolis treason trials -- The Camp Douglas conspiracy and the Cincinnati treason trial -- Epilogue : postwar potpourri.
The author refutes past historical theories and claims that such subversive, secret Civil War societies as the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Order of American Knights, and the Sons of Liberty were never much more than paper-based organizations with vague goals and little ability to carry them out.
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