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Confederate States Army - Wikipedia By March 1861, the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States meeting in the temporary capital of Montgomery, Alabama, expanded the provisional military forces and established a more permanent regular Confederate States Army
The Fiery Trial- A Civil War Challenge Group - Facebook CIVIL WAR BASICS #68 ANATOMY OF AN ARMY- 5 Divisions were grouped together to form corps Corps were the largest grouping of an army (if you don’t include a “wing”) A corps (not a corp for some reason 🤷♀️) was built for sustained, independent operation, led by, usually, serious commanders with serious military expertise (with the exception of some, particularly political
The Untold Story of the Eradication of the Original Ku Klux Klan Combined with a general plan to allow their foot soldiers to take the heat for them, many of the wealthy and high ranking leaders in the Klan—the same men who had held their heads high around
Southern Violence | American Experience | Official Site | PBS Members of the Ku Klux Klan had beaten Colby savagely in 1869 in an attempt to end his political activities as a Radical Republican, after earlier efforts to bribe the black legislator had
The History of the KKK in American Politics - JSTOR Daily Shortly after the Civil War ended, some Confederate veterans got together and played around with hoods and robes, wearing them while riding horses through town in Pulaski, Tennessee They formed a secret group with outlandish names for its officials, like “Grand Cyclops” for the leader
Who were the KKK and what did they do? - BBC It grew quickly and by 1921 it had over 100,000 members By the mid 1920s the movement was at its strongest with 5 million members Only WASPs could join the Klan
Ku Klux Klan - Encyclopedia. com Founded by a group of Confederate Civil War veterans in 1866, the group expanded throughout the South and beyond, attracting thousands of members unhappy with Reconstruction, the post-war period when the former Confederate states were occupied by Union troops and governed by northerners
Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism - Southern Poverty Law Center Although they had roots in different traditions — the Klan in the post-civil War South and the neo-Nazis in Hitler’s Germany — they shared the same enemies and the same fanatic obsession with white supremacy
Ku Klux Klan Trials of 1871-1872 | Federal Judicial Center In 1871, the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina embarked on one of the worst campaigns of domestic terrorism in American history The group employed vicious assaults, rape, and murder to trample on the political rights of African Americans and attempt to oust the state’s Reconstruction government