The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret organization during the Civil War years that was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. Members were supposedly involved in plots to invade Mexico for the South, as well as to incite unrest in the North. They were strongest above the Mason-Dixon Line in southern Ohio and Indiana, where the Copperhead movement had gained significant traction.

There were no known actual cells within York County, Pennsylvania, during the Civil War, but did not stop some enterprising shysters from New York from exploiting their name during the Gettysburg Campaign.



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