Knights Of The Golden Circle

    • Founded: 1854 by George W. L. Bickley of Virginia and Ohio
    • "Golden Circle" referred to the proposed new slave states
    • 1854: First "castle" created in Cincinnati
    • Attempted unsuccessfully to invade Mexico twice in 1860
    • Civil War shifted Knights' focus to support of the Confederacy
    • Southern sympathizers were called "Copperheads" in the North
    • Strong membership in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio
    • Members would dodge Abraham Lincoln's military draft
    • Famous alleged members: Jesse James, John Wilkes Booth
    • Renamed Order of American Knights and Order of the Sons of Liberty
    • Officially dissolved in 1864
  • The Knights Of The Golden Circle was a secret society formed by Southern sympathizers who hoped to annex parts of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for use as slave states.

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