TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klement,Frank L.
TI  - Dark lanterns: secret political societies, conspiracies, and treason trials in the Civil War 
SN  - 0807111740
AV  - E458.8 .K673 1984
U1  - 973.7 19
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Baton Rouge
PB  - Louisiana State University Press
KW  - Secret societies
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Trials (Treason)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - Societies, etc
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 245-253; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -