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Location: North Carolina is my home. I own 20 acres in Texas.
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Who here has opinions and/or knowledge of how Jesse James was intended to act as a financiere (if thats a word) for the Confederacy? I believe based on some interesting info I have came across. The Knights of the Golden Circle (an inside Washington Mason organization meant solely to disrupt the Union and cause a war) played a huge role in the moving of the "chess pieces" on both sides. Was Jesse James' "job" to financialy handicap the Union while increasing the bank for the South?
Sounds like a foil-hat conspiracy theory to me. Can you elaborate on your "interesting info"? My understanding is that the Knights of the Golden Circle had nothing to do with Washington and the Masons. It was simply an organization of southern sympathizers. And it was no more than a minor annoyance in the scheme of things -- much like the 1st Alabama (US) Cavalry. I could be wrong.
Ole
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Location: North Carolina is my home. I own 20 acres in Texas.
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My understanding of the Knights of the Golden Circle, as well as my "interesting info" mostly is derived from my reading the "Shadow of the Sentinel" by Warren Getler and Bob Brewer. I encourage you to read this book, but for now I will give you a couple of quotes. In reference to the KGC the book has this quote, "The symbols were a large bronze crecsent, or new moon, set with fifteen stars; a large temple, under the dome of which shown a beautiful representation of the noon-day sun, and around the corona of which were fixed fifteen stars. To these were added the skull and crossbones. Now for the language of the symbols: The crescent represents the growning Southern Confederacy; the temple, with its glowing sun and fifteens stars, foreshadows the "sunny South" under the benign influence of a fully matured Southern government, extending its borders through Cuba, Mexico and Central and South America; the skull and crossbones signify death to all "abolitionists" and opposers of Southern Independence." Also, there is another interesting quote in refernce to the KGC. This quote comes four years before Lincoln's assassination. "Members of the Inner Temple of the Knights of the Golden Circle are to be scattered all through Missourri, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland, for the purpose of harassing and injuring the friends and soldiers of the Union in every way they can. If they can use poison successfully, they will do it. . .if they can, by false statements, so direct the movements of the United States troops as to cause them loss or defeat, they will do that. . .But one thing above all others, some of them is to distinguish himself for--if he can, thats is--the assasination of the 'Abolition' President."
Location: North Carolina is my home. I own 20 acres in Texas.
Posts: 39
Ooops I forgot, Jesse James was believed to be a member of the KGC and a Mason. The KGC is a direct decendant of the Scottish-Rite Free Masons. Albert Pike was the leader of the KGC during the time period of the Civil War and many prominant figures of the Civil War on the Confederate side were active members in the KGC. The KGC had no affiliation with the KKK, but a certain member of the KGC (General Nathan Bedford Forrest) started the KKK to redirect Washingtons sites off the KGC so that the members, as many as there were, would not be incarcerated after the war. The KKK wasn't intended to be an uneccessary evil to the people, but was to solely be a distractor to those hunting the KGC members so that the KGC would have time to go "underground". Jesse James did alot of distracting for the Pinkerton detectives as well.
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Ole, can I have a foil hat too? No, scratch that, I need an Advill after reading that.
__________________ F. S. Powers
Union Ancersor: Pvt Arnuah Norton, 60th Ohio. (G-G-G Grandfather) Died at Salisbury NC, November 3, 1864
Confederate Ancestors: Captain Thomas A. Morrow, 29th Texas Cavalry (G-G-G- Uncle) and 2LT George W. Morrow, 31st Texas Cavalry (G-G-G Grandfather). Both survived the war
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