Jun 16, 2012
Flatrock, Beartrack, Thackers Gap — across the hills and hollows of southeastern Illinois.
Springhouse (Vol. 29 No. 3) reprinted an article about Saline County that was first published in 1934. That article includes the following about Dr. John W. Mitchell of early Harrisburg.
EXCERPT:
"…Saline County did not declare for secession; but the Knights of the Golden Circle, a semi-military organization which favored the Southern case, were well organized and active. Their methods were similar to those used later by the Ku Klux Klan;"
http://www.advocatepress.com/community/blogs/In_Womble's_Blue_Shadow/x2147063761/Dr-J-W-Mitchell
