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Knights of the Golden Circle : Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War /

"Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the "Golden Circle" region of Mexico...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keehn, David C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the shadowy knights
  • Powerful antecedents
  • Formal organization
  • The drive for Mexico
  • A regional coalition
  • Transforming to secession
  • The paramilitary's core
  • Seizure of federal forts and arsenals
  • The plot to seize the District of Columbia
  • Rustling Texas out of the Union
  • Spreading secession
  • Call to arms
  • The struggle for Kentucky
  • A rejuvenated KGC?