Circle of Dishonor
Gwen Mayo (Author)
http://www.gwenmayo.com
http://gwenmayo.blogspot.com
”When I started planning CIRCLE OF DISHONOR, I knew I wanted to create a main character that was a cross between the Pinkerton female investigators and the Civil War era women who were pretending to be men. The resourcefulness and creativity of these women always intrigued me, as did the time in which they lived.
Kentucky was a great place to set these stores. The Pinkertons were very active in Kentucky. The history of my home state is filled with enough murder and mayhem to fill a library with stories. All I had to do was settle on the date and city.
The years between 1865 and 1915 are often called the "decades of discord" because it is the time when Kentucky was the most violent place in the United States. Ordinary citizens carried numerous weapons for self defense. Dueling was common, and murder was an acceptable way to end an argument. One wealthy business man from Louisville traveled regularly to New York for suits tailored with nine custom pockets so he could secret away his knives and guns without ruining the line of his outfit.
It didn’t take me long to choose Lexington during the city’s two week centennial celebration as a place to kick off the series. Lexington was not the Wild West in the spring of 1879, but the western frontier would have been safer than Lexington during the centennial. Tent cities covered the fairgrounds and the twelve men of the newly formed police force were ill equipped to keep the peace, let alone solve the murder of one of its leading citizens. CIRCLE OF DISHONOR draws readers into a world where secret societies like the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Regulators wreaked havoc. Brothels, gambling establishments, illegal saloons and distilleries operated openly, and government graft was considered the norm.”
http://bewarethevampirebunnies.blogspot.com/2010/08/guest-blog-gwen-mayo.html
Bio: Gwen Mayo is passionate about blending the colorful history of her native Kentucky with her love for mystery fiction. A graduate in political science from the University of Kentucky, Gwen currently lives and writes in Lexington, but grew up in a large Irish family in Grayson, Kentucky. Her stories have appeared in anthologies, on online short fiction sites, and in micro-fiction collections. Circle of Dishonor, her debut novel, is set during the turbulent political upheaval of post Civil War Kentucky at a time when murder was more common in Kentucky than it was anywhere else in the United States.
Editorial Reviews "Obsessed with finding the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society responsible for her brother's death, former Pinkerton operative Nessa Donnelly assumed his identity and followed his killers to Lexington. The trail ended there, and fourteen years have gone by. When local prostitute Belle Brezing turns to her for help, Nessa is immersed in a murder case that threatens to expose all of her secrets. She is dealing with more than murder. The KGC is active again in Kentucky and bodies are piling up. If Nessa doesn't find the killer fast, she stands to lose everything-maybe even her life."
Preview of book: http://www.pillhillpress.com/circleofdishonorpreview.html
218 pages
Publisher: Pill Hill Press (July 4, 2010)
ISBN-10: 1617060240
ISBN-13: 978-1617060243
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West
EZArticles.info
http://www.ezarticles.info/?p=88017
EXCERPT: "In 1990, Millennium Publications produced a four-part comic book series ("The Night Of The Iron Tyrants") scripted by Mark Ellis with art by
Darryl Banks. A sequel to the TV series, it involved Dr. Loveless in a conspiracy to assassinate President Grant and the President of Brazil and put the Knights of the Golden Circle into power. The characters of Voltaire and Antoinette were prominent here, despite their respective early departures from Dr. Loveless' side in the original program. A review from the Mile High Comics site states: "This mini-series perfectly captures the fun mixture of western and spy action that marked the ground-breaking 1960s TV series." The storyline of the comics mini-series was optioned for motion picture development."
Who was Tom McVeigh again?
http://www.alien-earth.org/forum/message.php?message=69591&mpage=1&showdate=7/25/10
EXCERPT: "According to Alex Jones, the Knights of the Secret Circle and the
Knights of the Golden Circle are what high-level members of Ku Klux Klan call themselves. Sources other than Alex Jones also say that the Knights of the Golden Circle became the group now known as the Ku Klux Clan. Some sources say that the Ku Klux Klan is the military arm of the Knights of the Golden Circle....
Well, all of these sources could be correct. This is because Freemasonry is an Illuminati group AND evidence exists that a major figure in Freemasonry is known to have founded the Knights of the Golden Circle, a group that allegedly became the Ku Klux Klan. Confederate General Albert Pike is the figure associated with Freemasonry referred to above. Pike's contribution to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry was that he composed the ritual of the order and he presided as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the group from 1859 until his death in 1891."
Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations
TMT --Episode #27.5, Chat Transcript/Commentary
http://cjcc-an.blogspot.com/2010/07/tmt-episode-275-chat.html
EXCERPT:
[10:27:05 PM] Jesse James was part of the Knights of the Golden Circle.
[10:29:22 PM] Guest 13 is logged into the chat
[10:29:35 PM] http://www.knightsofthegoldencircle-kgc.com/
[10:29:43 PM] Google it!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
EZArticles.info
http://www.ezarticles.info/?p=88017
EXCERPT: "In 1990, Millennium Publications produced a four-part comic book series ("The Night Of The Iron Tyrants") scripted by Mark Ellis with art by
Darryl Banks. A sequel to the TV series, it involved Dr. Loveless in a conspiracy to assassinate President Grant and the President of Brazil and put the Knights of the Golden Circle into power. The characters of Voltaire and Antoinette were prominent here, despite their respective early departures from Dr. Loveless' side in the original program. A review from the Mile High Comics site states: "This mini-series perfectly captures the fun mixture of western and spy action that marked the ground-breaking 1960s TV series." The storyline of the comics mini-series was optioned for motion picture development."
Who was Tom McVeigh again?
http://www.alien-earth.org/forum/message.php?message=69591&mpage=1&showdate=7/25/10
EXCERPT: "According to Alex Jones, the Knights of the Secret Circle and the
Knights of the Golden Circle are what high-level members of Ku Klux Klan call themselves. Sources other than Alex Jones also say that the Knights of the Golden Circle became the group now known as the Ku Klux Clan. Some sources say that the Ku Klux Klan is the military arm of the Knights of the Golden Circle....
Well, all of these sources could be correct. This is because Freemasonry is an Illuminati group AND evidence exists that a major figure in Freemasonry is known to have founded the Knights of the Golden Circle, a group that allegedly became the Ku Klux Klan. Confederate General Albert Pike is the figure associated with Freemasonry referred to above. Pike's contribution to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry was that he composed the ritual of the order and he presided as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the group from 1859 until his death in 1891."
Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations
TMT --Episode #27.5, Chat Transcript/Commentary
http://cjcc-an.blogspot.com/2010/07/tmt-episode-275-chat.html
EXCERPT:
[10:27:05 PM] Jesse James was part of the Knights of the Golden Circle.
[10:29:22 PM] Guest 13 is logged into the chat
[10:29:35 PM] http://www.knightsofthegoldencircle-kgc.com/
[10:29:43 PM] Google it!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Friday, August 20, 2010
KGC Twofer
SOUTHERN INDIANA CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE
http://sicwrt.blogspot.com/2010/08/august-meeting.html
EXCERPT: "Lambdin Milligan, from Huntington near Fort Wayne, was a lawyer, farmer, and leader of the Knights of the Golden Circle during the war. He publicly protested the Union's waging war against the Confederacy and he by the end of 1863 was widely believed to be involved in a huge conspiracy against the United States. Union authorities believed he was in contact with Confederate agents and was arrested in October 1864 by order of General Alvin P. Hovey and tried before a military tribunal. No warrant or affidavit was given to show Milligan's arrest was authorized. Milligan was told that he must prove his innocence. He was convicted and sentenced to hang but the sentence was later commuted to life by President Andrew Johnson. He appealed to the Supreme Court and in what became knows as the Ex Parte Milligan ruling. His conviction was overturned as unconstitutional for use of military tribunals when civil courts were still operating."
WAS WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ASSASSINATED?
http://nfbenton.com/archives/2541
EXCERPT: "It is well known that secret conspiratorial societies were rampant in that era, including the Knights of the Golden Circle (which evolved into the Ku Klux Klan) that Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, belonged to. These societies were known to include the cultivation of techniques of assassination by poisoning in their arsenal."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
http://sicwrt.blogspot.com/2010/08/august-meeting.html
EXCERPT: "Lambdin Milligan, from Huntington near Fort Wayne, was a lawyer, farmer, and leader of the Knights of the Golden Circle during the war. He publicly protested the Union's waging war against the Confederacy and he by the end of 1863 was widely believed to be involved in a huge conspiracy against the United States. Union authorities believed he was in contact with Confederate agents and was arrested in October 1864 by order of General Alvin P. Hovey and tried before a military tribunal. No warrant or affidavit was given to show Milligan's arrest was authorized. Milligan was told that he must prove his innocence. He was convicted and sentenced to hang but the sentence was later commuted to life by President Andrew Johnson. He appealed to the Supreme Court and in what became knows as the Ex Parte Milligan ruling. His conviction was overturned as unconstitutional for use of military tribunals when civil courts were still operating."
WAS WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ASSASSINATED?
http://nfbenton.com/archives/2541
EXCERPT: "It is well known that secret conspiratorial societies were rampant in that era, including the Knights of the Golden Circle (which evolved into the Ku Klux Klan) that Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, belonged to. These societies were known to include the cultivation of techniques of assassination by poisoning in their arsenal."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
The Hibernian
The Hibernian
http://www.thefullwiki.org/The_Hibernian
Excerpts:
"The Hibernian was a monthly Irish magazine with the subtitle "Faith, Family and Country". Twenty-nine issues were published between May 2006 and September 2008.......It published numerous articles alleging that the international banking system is run by money-manipulating conspirators......."Money Matters: Abraham Lincoln's greenbacks - Part V in a series on money" - "These external forces were trying to break up the union, so they could have smaller nations of equal power, to play one against the other in the war debt game.. International banking was the hidden power behind these conflicts in Europe...
Rothschild agent August Belmont had placed large amounts of Rothschild money into bonds of the state sponsored banks in the South...International banking houses were furious over the issuance of Lincoln's Greenbacks.. Eventually Abraham Lincoln paid the price for the issuance of greenbacks.. killed by John Wilkes Booth, who had links to the Knights of the Golden Circle.. drawing its membership from masonic lodges"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
http://www.thefullwiki.org/The_Hibernian
Excerpts:
"The Hibernian was a monthly Irish magazine with the subtitle "Faith, Family and Country". Twenty-nine issues were published between May 2006 and September 2008.......It published numerous articles alleging that the international banking system is run by money-manipulating conspirators......."Money Matters: Abraham Lincoln's greenbacks - Part V in a series on money" - "These external forces were trying to break up the union, so they could have smaller nations of equal power, to play one against the other in the war debt game.. International banking was the hidden power behind these conflicts in Europe...
Rothschild agent August Belmont had placed large amounts of Rothschild money into bonds of the state sponsored banks in the South...International banking houses were furious over the issuance of Lincoln's Greenbacks.. Eventually Abraham Lincoln paid the price for the issuance of greenbacks.. killed by John Wilkes Booth, who had links to the Knights of the Golden Circle.. drawing its membership from masonic lodges"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
BOHEMIAN DEMOCRATIC REGISTER
BOHEMIAN DEMOCRATIC REGISTER
http://the-bohemian-register.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-condemns-racism-naacp-passes.html
EXCERPT:
"When the Southern states seceded to form the Confederacy, some Oregonians saw it as a perfect opportunity to establish their own country. However, their movement failed when it became linked with the Knights of the Golden Circle, a pro-Confederate, pro-slavery organization.Californians unsympathetic to the Union also pushed for the re-establishment of the Republic of California as an independent entity-the leader of California's federal forces at the outset of the Civil War was himself a supporter of the Confederate cause,.."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
http://the-bohemian-register.blogspot.com/2010/07/naacp-condemns-racism-naacp-passes.html
EXCERPT:
"When the Southern states seceded to form the Confederacy, some Oregonians saw it as a perfect opportunity to establish their own country. However, their movement failed when it became linked with the Knights of the Golden Circle, a pro-Confederate, pro-slavery organization.Californians unsympathetic to the Union also pushed for the re-establishment of the Republic of California as an independent entity-the leader of California's federal forces at the outset of the Civil War was himself a supporter of the Confederate cause,.."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Thursday, August 19, 2010
"Knights of the Golden Circle - A small Tennessee Klan group."
"Knights of the Golden Circle - A small Tennessee Klan group."
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/02/clinton-on-byrds-kkk-membership-hey-he-was-just-trying-to-get-elected/
EXCERPT: "Knights of the Golden Circle - A small Tennessee Klan group."
"This will help the kid know where the klan is in the deep south as well as the rest of the north, midwest and kalifornica.
Alabama
ORION (Our Race Is Our Nation) Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Once a large
and active group, the ORION Knights have mostly disappeared, with a remnant
in Alabama.
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Alabama Klan group.
Arkansas
Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An active regional Klan group, with a
presence primarily in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Once a larger group,
the Keystone Knights are much smaller today, with active members in
Pennsylvania and Arkansas.
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An Arkansas-based Klan group with chapters in
around seven states.
Ku Klux Klan, LLC - A small Arkansas Klan group.
Southern Arkansas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group based in
Smackover.
California
Kalifornia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small California Klan group.
White Legion Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A small southern California Klan
group.
Florida
Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A growing Klan group based in Florida,
claiming chapters in some 18 states, mostly in the South, the Northeast, and
the West Coast.
National Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group with
chapters in Florida and Louisiana.
United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Florida Klan group.
Georgia
American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group with
chapters in Georgia and Texas.
Georgia Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan - A Georgia-based Klan group.
North Georgia White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A Georgia-based Klan
group.
Indiana
American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Possibly the most active Klan group
in the 1990s, the American Knights are now nearly dead, with only a few
members in Indiana.
Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Headquartered near
South Bend, Indiana. It claims chapters in around 20 different states, in
all parts of the country.
United Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Indiana Klan group.
Iowa
Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A small Iowa Klan group.
Kentucky
Imperial Klans of America - A prominent Klan group based in Kentucky with
chapters in eight states.
White Mountain Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Kentucky Klan group.
Louisiana
Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An active regional Klan group, with a
presence primarily in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Louisiana White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A Louisiana Klan group.
National Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group with
chapters in Florida and Louisiana.
Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A small Louisiana Klan group.
Michigan
United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A Klan group with
chapters in nine states, mostly in the Midwest. It is based in Michigan.
Mississippi
Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A Klan group with a number of
chapters in Mississippi.
New Jersey
Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small New Jersey Klan group
headquartered in Millville.
North Carolina
Cleveland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small North Carolina Klan group.
Ohio
Brotherhood of Klans - One of the larger and more active Klan groups in
2006, headquartered in Tennessee until the late 2006 death of its leader. It
appears its new headquarters will be in Marion, Ohio. It claims chapters in
some 15 states, from all around the country.
Mystic Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An Ohio-based Klan group that claims to
be active in eight states, mostly in the Midwest, although it lost much of
its membership to the United Northern & Southern Knights.
Oklahoma
Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An active regional Klan group, with a
presence primarily in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Pennsylvania
International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- Once a larger group, the
Keystone Knights are much smaller today, with active members in Pennsylvania
and Arkansas.
South Carolina
International Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small South Carolina Klan
group.
Tennessee
Great Tennessee Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Tennessee Klan group.
Knights of Bedford Forest - A small Tennessee Klan group.
Knights of the Golden Circle - A small Tennessee Klan group.
Knights of Yahweh - A small Klan group based in Dandridge, Tennessee.
Texas
American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group with
chapters in Georgia and Texas.
Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An active regional Klan group, with a
presence primarily in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A Texas Klan group based in
Cleveland, Texas.
Virginia
Victory Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A small Virginia Klan group.
Virginia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Virginia Klan group.
West Virginia
Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan - A small West Virginia Klan group.
Col. John Wm. Reed on July 2, 2010 at 8:44 PM"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/02/clinton-on-byrds-kkk-membership-hey-he-was-just-trying-to-get-elected/
EXCERPT: "Knights of the Golden Circle - A small Tennessee Klan group."
"This will help the kid know where the klan is in the deep south as well as the rest of the north, midwest and kalifornica.
Alabama
ORION (Our Race Is Our Nation) Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Once a large
and active group, the ORION Knights have mostly disappeared, with a remnant
in Alabama.
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Alabama Klan group.
Arkansas
Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An active regional Klan group, with a
presence primarily in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Once a larger group,
the Keystone Knights are much smaller today, with active members in
Pennsylvania and Arkansas.
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An Arkansas-based Klan group with chapters in
around seven states.
Ku Klux Klan, LLC - A small Arkansas Klan group.
Southern Arkansas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group based in
Smackover.
California
Kalifornia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small California Klan group.
White Legion Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A small southern California Klan
group.
Florida
Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A growing Klan group based in Florida,
claiming chapters in some 18 states, mostly in the South, the Northeast, and
the West Coast.
National Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group with
chapters in Florida and Louisiana.
United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Florida Klan group.
Georgia
American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group with
chapters in Georgia and Texas.
Georgia Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan - A Georgia-based Klan group.
North Georgia White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A Georgia-based Klan
group.
Indiana
American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Possibly the most active Klan group
in the 1990s, the American Knights are now nearly dead, with only a few
members in Indiana.
Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Headquartered near
South Bend, Indiana. It claims chapters in around 20 different states, in
all parts of the country.
United Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Indiana Klan group.
Iowa
Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A small Iowa Klan group.
Kentucky
Imperial Klans of America - A prominent Klan group based in Kentucky with
chapters in eight states.
White Mountain Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Kentucky Klan group.
Louisiana
Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An active regional Klan group, with a
presence primarily in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Louisiana White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A Louisiana Klan group.
National Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group with
chapters in Florida and Louisiana.
Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A small Louisiana Klan group.
Michigan
United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A Klan group with
chapters in nine states, mostly in the Midwest. It is based in Michigan.
Mississippi
Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A Klan group with a number of
chapters in Mississippi.
New Jersey
Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small New Jersey Klan group
headquartered in Millville.
North Carolina
Cleveland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small North Carolina Klan group.
Ohio
Brotherhood of Klans - One of the larger and more active Klan groups in
2006, headquartered in Tennessee until the late 2006 death of its leader. It
appears its new headquarters will be in Marion, Ohio. It claims chapters in
some 15 states, from all around the country.
Mystic Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An Ohio-based Klan group that claims to
be active in eight states, mostly in the Midwest, although it lost much of
its membership to the United Northern & Southern Knights.
Oklahoma
Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An active regional Klan group, with a
presence primarily in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Pennsylvania
International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- Once a larger group, the
Keystone Knights are much smaller today, with active members in Pennsylvania
and Arkansas.
South Carolina
International Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small South Carolina Klan
group.
Tennessee
Great Tennessee Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Tennessee Klan group.
Knights of Bedford Forest - A small Tennessee Klan group.
Knights of the Golden Circle - A small Tennessee Klan group.
Knights of Yahweh - A small Klan group based in Dandridge, Tennessee.
Texas
American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Klan group with
chapters in Georgia and Texas.
Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - An active regional Klan group, with a
presence primarily in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A Texas Klan group based in
Cleveland, Texas.
Virginia
Victory Knights of the Ku Klux Klan- A small Virginia Klan group.
Virginia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - A small Virginia Klan group.
West Virginia
Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan - A small West Virginia Klan group.
Col. John Wm. Reed on July 2, 2010 at 8:44 PM"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Description of the 30th Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry
Caveat Lector -CCC
Description of the 30th Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry (Knights Kadosh)
http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?429-Description-of-the-30th-Degree-of...&p=93034
Re: Description of the 30th Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry (Knights Kadosh)
AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, Washington DC was built in 1790. Next the
conspiracy moved on the states.
"The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society originally
founded to promote the interests of the Southern United States. It was to
prepare the way for annexation of a golden circle of territories in Mexico,
Central America, and the Caribbean to be included in the United States as
slave states."
John Wilkes Booth was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC). In
Washington DC the Copperhead politicians were also KGC, Irish Catholic
agents of the Vatican.
President Lincoln Assassination by the Vatican
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27imlC_TzVo
10 conspirators:
4 hanged by the federal government
4 imprisoned
1 shot
1 escaped- John Surratt was found at the Vatican
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Surratt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Surratt
http://www.reformation.org/lincoln.html
http://ctwilcox.com
The southern states of the USA were the only Protestant stronghold in all of
the Americas. After the Civil War Washington DC founded the Pan-American
Union that rules all of North and South America, today called the
Organization of the American States.
"The pursuit of regional solidarity and cooperation again came to the
forefront in 1889-90, at the First International Conference of American
States."
Sister society of the Mason-Templars, after the Civil War the KGC became the
Knights of the KKK to divide the Blacks from the Protestant Christians. The
satanic Templar society would often burn crosses to instill fear of anything
Christian.
Last edited by Amish; 06-27-10 at 17:46.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Description of the 30th Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry (Knights Kadosh)
http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?429-Description-of-the-30th-Degree-of...&p=93034
Re: Description of the 30th Degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry (Knights Kadosh)
AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, Washington DC was built in 1790. Next the
conspiracy moved on the states.
"The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society originally
founded to promote the interests of the Southern United States. It was to
prepare the way for annexation of a golden circle of territories in Mexico,
Central America, and the Caribbean to be included in the United States as
slave states."
John Wilkes Booth was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC). In
Washington DC the Copperhead politicians were also KGC, Irish Catholic
agents of the Vatican.
President Lincoln Assassination by the Vatican
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27imlC_TzVo
10 conspirators:
4 hanged by the federal government
4 imprisoned
1 shot
1 escaped- John Surratt was found at the Vatican
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Surratt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Surratt
http://www.reformation.org/lincoln.html
http://ctwilcox.com
The southern states of the USA were the only Protestant stronghold in all of
the Americas. After the Civil War Washington DC founded the Pan-American
Union that rules all of North and South America, today called the
Organization of the American States.
"The pursuit of regional solidarity and cooperation again came to the
forefront in 1889-90, at the First International Conference of American
States."
Sister society of the Mason-Templars, after the Civil War the KGC became the
Knights of the KKK to divide the Blacks from the Protestant Christians. The
satanic Templar society would often burn crosses to instill fear of anything
Christian.
Last edited by Amish; 06-27-10 at 17:46.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
The Knights of the Golden Circle Support the Confederacy
The Knights of the Golden Circle Support the Confederacy
By Alice Mullaly
Jefferson Public Radio
http://www.ijpr.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=1555
Welcome to As It Was: Tales from the State of Jefferson
As many as 2,500 Southern sympathizers in Oregon joined the national Knights
of the Golden Circle society that supported the Confederacy during the Civil
War. One of its chapters was in Jacksonville.
The organization used secret passwords and signs. If a man stroked his beard
with thumb and first finger of his right hand touching and another responded
by scratching behind his right ear, these men would know they were both
Knights of the Golden Circle.
Some members supported forming an independent Republic of the Pacific Coast
that would condone a labor force of Chinese, Hawaiian, and Negro slaves.
More menacingly, these secret groups bought guns and practiced military
drills. An Oregon militia troop was called up in 1864 to quell the threat of
openly militant Knights in the Long Tom and Siuslaw River valleys of
Southwest Oregon.
Joseph Lane, Oregon's Indian fighter, outspoken southern sympathizer and the
state's first U.S. Senator, was sent back to Oregon in disgrace, accused of
smuggling guns to the Knights.
With the defeat of the South in the Civil War, the Knights of the Golden
Circle vanished, but their beliefs persisted with many people.
Today's episode of As It Was was written by Alice Mullaly, the program
producer is Raymond Scully. I'm Shirley Patton. As It Was is a
co-production of JPR and the Southern Oregon Historical Society. To share
stories or learn more about the series, visit asitwas - dot.org.
Source: McLagan, Elizabeth, A Peculiar Paradise: a History of Blacks in
Oregon, 1788-1940, The Oregon Black History Project, Georgian Press, 1980
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
By Alice Mullaly
Jefferson Public Radio
http://www.ijpr.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=1555
Welcome to As It Was: Tales from the State of Jefferson
As many as 2,500 Southern sympathizers in Oregon joined the national Knights
of the Golden Circle society that supported the Confederacy during the Civil
War. One of its chapters was in Jacksonville.
The organization used secret passwords and signs. If a man stroked his beard
with thumb and first finger of his right hand touching and another responded
by scratching behind his right ear, these men would know they were both
Knights of the Golden Circle.
Some members supported forming an independent Republic of the Pacific Coast
that would condone a labor force of Chinese, Hawaiian, and Negro slaves.
More menacingly, these secret groups bought guns and practiced military
drills. An Oregon militia troop was called up in 1864 to quell the threat of
openly militant Knights in the Long Tom and Siuslaw River valleys of
Southwest Oregon.
Joseph Lane, Oregon's Indian fighter, outspoken southern sympathizer and the
state's first U.S. Senator, was sent back to Oregon in disgrace, accused of
smuggling guns to the Knights.
With the defeat of the South in the Civil War, the Knights of the Golden
Circle vanished, but their beliefs persisted with many people.
Today's episode of As It Was was written by Alice Mullaly, the program
producer is Raymond Scully. I'm Shirley Patton. As It Was is a
co-production of JPR and the Southern Oregon Historical Society. To share
stories or learn more about the series, visit asitwas - dot.org.
Source: McLagan, Elizabeth, A Peculiar Paradise: a History of Blacks in
Oregon, 1788-1940, The Oregon Black History Project, Georgian Press, 1980
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
JFK And Lincoln Were No Friends Of The Vatican
JFK And Lincoln Were No Friends Of The Vatican
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/greg/?p=1776
EXCERPT: "Canadian researcher, author and professional actor, C. T. Wilcox
has carefully and meticulously retraced the "footprints" of the conspirators
involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Using court
documents, witness testimonies and quotations by authors who wrote about the
Lincoln assassination during the 19th century, Wilcox provides not only the
names of the conspirators, but explains how they planned and orchestrated
the assassination of one of America's most beloved presidents. Wilcox also
reveals the men operating "behind the scenes" who supported the conspirators
in their attempts to avoid the U.S. authorities searching for them.
Unfortunately, for Papal Rome, Wilcox's detective work leads directly to its
doors. Pope Pius IX, Rome's Jesuit Order, as well as the secretive Knights
of the Golden Circle, are all shown to be involved in the intrigues
surrounding the bloody American Civil War of 1861-65."
Short Maxwell video brings out many similarities in both Presidents but
leaves out one important shared fact
By Greg Szymanski, JD
June 24, 2010
Jordan Maxwell provides some interesting facts in this short YouTube video
about similarities between the JFK and Lincoln assassinations.
However, we have to take this opportunity at add one major fact that both
Presidents were killed by directives sent down by the Jesuit Order.
Here is some background information to put this interesting piece to the
assassination puzzle. We might add that without this piece, Americans remain
ignorant about really who runs their government and who really sets foreign
and domestic policy.
Here is Maxwell's short video and then some background information sent to
The Investigative Journal regarding the Vatican mark of death in both the
JFK and Lincoln assassinations:
One book worth reading, written by C.T. Wilcox uncovering how the Jesuits
killed Lincoln, discusses how they played a major role in inciting the Civil
War and also planned the Lincoln assassination. Here is a letter sent to
Wilcox by a skeptical reader who finally was convinced about the Vatican and
Jesuit hand in the Lincoln murder.
Dear Mr. Wilcox:
Chuck, your book was responsible for breaking me through the biggest wall of
cognitive dissonance I've ever experienced in my life. I have had a couple
other times in my life, where I ran up against a hard truth that didn't fit
my previous worldview paradigm. But your book shattered so many of my
previously held conceptions, more so than anything else ever has, at least
with such suddenness, and I thank you for that.
I thought guys like you were "a half a sandwich short of a picnic." I
realize now that that was just an emotional reaction on my part. When I
actually did the research, the first big and crucial step to which was
reading your "Transformation of the Republic," well, I felt like I was in
that old campy movie "They Live", and I had just put the sunglasses on! I
wish now that they had not made that movie so campy.
Turns out, it wasn't that far out after all. Just replace the aliens with
Papa Nero's black-robed bully boys, and that movie describes this world
extraordinarily well. I believe now, wholeheartedly, that the stuff put
forward in your book is dead-on accurate.
Your book has incited me to embark on my own research quest. I am now
reading authors like Avro Manhattan, Bill Hughes, Burke McCarty, and John
Daniel. I now regularly read every article on websites like Phelps's and
Daryl Eberhardt's. I have always been a history buff. I now see so much more
of history - history makes so much more sense now. I recently read the book
"Hitler's Pope" and though it exposed a lot of dirt on Pius XII,
I am now able to see that the mainstream author, Cornwell, was hopelessly
naive in merely painting Pius XII as Hitler's puppet-the whole thing makes
sooooooo much more sense if you reverse the roles, and have Pius, or better
yet, Ledochovski or Van Papen with his hand up Hitler's rectum, instead of
the other way around.
Chuck, your book has got stuff in it that hasn't seen the light of day in,
what, 120 years or so? Man, those authentic, back-in-the-day
newspaper articles just about floored me, and the old newspaper editorial
cartoon. What struck me as most awesome, most eerie, most foreboding, was
the sudden realization that if the Jesuits can suppress all that news
coverage, then they can rewrite whatever history they wanted, wherever,
whenever.
I tell you, the other and even more permanent thought that struck me, that I
still live with now everyday, and have ever since been attempting to alert
my friends to, is this: The Inquisition never stopped. It merelywent
underground, got smarter, craftier. But the fact is, those pious monsters
are still after us.
Thank you for waking me up to that, Chuck. Thank you, and Keith, who
helped me master my cognitive dissonance long enough to read your
wonderful book.
David
Another reader offers comments:
Of the book The Transformation of the Republic: The Origins of the Religious
Hi-Jacking of the American Government and the Truth Being the Assassination
of Abraham Lincoln , by C. T. Wilcox
Canadian researcher, author and professional actor, C. T. Wilcox has
carefully and meticulously retraced the "footprints" of the conspirators
involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Using court
documents, witness testimonies and quotations by authors who wrote about the
Lincoln assassination during the 19th century, Wilcox provides not only the
names of the conspirators, but explains how they planned and orchestrated
the assassination of one of America's most beloved presidents. Wilcox also
reveals the men operating "behind the scenes" who supported the conspirators
in their attempts to avoid the U.S. authorities searching for them.
Unfortunately, for Papal Rome, Wilcox's detective work leads directly to its
doors. Pope Pius IX, Rome's Jesuit Order, as well as the secretive Knights
of the Golden Circle, are all shown to be involved in the intrigues
surrounding the bloody American Civil War of 1861-65.
Wilcox devotes much of his book to exposing the involvement of one of the
top conspirators in the Lincoln assassination: a man named John
Harrison Surratt. Surratt was the object of one of the greatest "manhunts"
in U.S. history. Wilcox in great detail shows how Surratt was assisted by
Roman Catholic priests who hid him in Canada, then helped him to escape to
England, and then on to Papal Rome itself, where he became a member of the
Pope's Pontifical Zouaves military units.
Wilcox also deals in length with the civil trial of Surratt in Washington,
D.C. (after he had been captured in Alexandria, Egypt), showing Roman
Catholic Church support for Surratt during the trial. Leading in this
assistance to Surratt was the infamous Jesuit Order, whose priests from
Georgetown attended the civil trial of Surratt.
C. T. Wilcox indeed covers much more than just dates and famous
personalities in this factual history concerning the assassination of
Lincoln, and the immediate fallout (trials, executions, etc.) from that
assassination. He delves deeply into the motives for carrying out this
vile assassination and the reasons why Lincoln had to be eliminated.
Just as important, Wilcox shows us that Papal Rome not only wanted Lincoln
and several other presidents out of the way, but has a much larger
agenda:destroying the American Constitutional Republic on its way to
resuming its role as the leader of the world in both secular as well as
religious affairs. Indeed, Wilcox's book is a vital link in exposing Rome's
designs to head up a one-world government and a one-world religion.
C. T. Wilcox has written a must-read book for those wanting to come to a
true understanding of the history surrounding America's Civil War of 1861-65
and the assassination of President Lincoln - a book that fills in many of
the "missing gaps" from that historical era and one that would make one
monster of a feature film.
Daryl Eberhardt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/greg/?p=1776
EXCERPT: "Canadian researcher, author and professional actor, C. T. Wilcox
has carefully and meticulously retraced the "footprints" of the conspirators
involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Using court
documents, witness testimonies and quotations by authors who wrote about the
Lincoln assassination during the 19th century, Wilcox provides not only the
names of the conspirators, but explains how they planned and orchestrated
the assassination of one of America's most beloved presidents. Wilcox also
reveals the men operating "behind the scenes" who supported the conspirators
in their attempts to avoid the U.S. authorities searching for them.
Unfortunately, for Papal Rome, Wilcox's detective work leads directly to its
doors. Pope Pius IX, Rome's Jesuit Order, as well as the secretive Knights
of the Golden Circle, are all shown to be involved in the intrigues
surrounding the bloody American Civil War of 1861-65."
Short Maxwell video brings out many similarities in both Presidents but
leaves out one important shared fact
By Greg Szymanski, JD
June 24, 2010
Jordan Maxwell provides some interesting facts in this short YouTube video
about similarities between the JFK and Lincoln assassinations.
However, we have to take this opportunity at add one major fact that both
Presidents were killed by directives sent down by the Jesuit Order.
Here is some background information to put this interesting piece to the
assassination puzzle. We might add that without this piece, Americans remain
ignorant about really who runs their government and who really sets foreign
and domestic policy.
Here is Maxwell's short video and then some background information sent to
The Investigative Journal regarding the Vatican mark of death in both the
JFK and Lincoln assassinations:
One book worth reading, written by C.T. Wilcox uncovering how the Jesuits
killed Lincoln, discusses how they played a major role in inciting the Civil
War and also planned the Lincoln assassination. Here is a letter sent to
Wilcox by a skeptical reader who finally was convinced about the Vatican and
Jesuit hand in the Lincoln murder.
Dear Mr. Wilcox:
Chuck, your book was responsible for breaking me through the biggest wall of
cognitive dissonance I've ever experienced in my life. I have had a couple
other times in my life, where I ran up against a hard truth that didn't fit
my previous worldview paradigm. But your book shattered so many of my
previously held conceptions, more so than anything else ever has, at least
with such suddenness, and I thank you for that.
I thought guys like you were "a half a sandwich short of a picnic." I
realize now that that was just an emotional reaction on my part. When I
actually did the research, the first big and crucial step to which was
reading your "Transformation of the Republic," well, I felt like I was in
that old campy movie "They Live", and I had just put the sunglasses on! I
wish now that they had not made that movie so campy.
Turns out, it wasn't that far out after all. Just replace the aliens with
Papa Nero's black-robed bully boys, and that movie describes this world
extraordinarily well. I believe now, wholeheartedly, that the stuff put
forward in your book is dead-on accurate.
Your book has incited me to embark on my own research quest. I am now
reading authors like Avro Manhattan, Bill Hughes, Burke McCarty, and John
Daniel. I now regularly read every article on websites like Phelps's and
Daryl Eberhardt's. I have always been a history buff. I now see so much more
of history - history makes so much more sense now. I recently read the book
"Hitler's Pope" and though it exposed a lot of dirt on Pius XII,
I am now able to see that the mainstream author, Cornwell, was hopelessly
naive in merely painting Pius XII as Hitler's puppet-the whole thing makes
sooooooo much more sense if you reverse the roles, and have Pius, or better
yet, Ledochovski or Van Papen with his hand up Hitler's rectum, instead of
the other way around.
Chuck, your book has got stuff in it that hasn't seen the light of day in,
what, 120 years or so? Man, those authentic, back-in-the-day
newspaper articles just about floored me, and the old newspaper editorial
cartoon. What struck me as most awesome, most eerie, most foreboding, was
the sudden realization that if the Jesuits can suppress all that news
coverage, then they can rewrite whatever history they wanted, wherever,
whenever.
I tell you, the other and even more permanent thought that struck me, that I
still live with now everyday, and have ever since been attempting to alert
my friends to, is this: The Inquisition never stopped. It merelywent
underground, got smarter, craftier. But the fact is, those pious monsters
are still after us.
Thank you for waking me up to that, Chuck. Thank you, and Keith, who
helped me master my cognitive dissonance long enough to read your
wonderful book.
David
Another reader offers comments:
Of the book The Transformation of the Republic: The Origins of the Religious
Hi-Jacking of the American Government and the Truth Being the Assassination
of Abraham Lincoln , by C. T. Wilcox
Canadian researcher, author and professional actor, C. T. Wilcox has
carefully and meticulously retraced the "footprints" of the conspirators
involved in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Using court
documents, witness testimonies and quotations by authors who wrote about the
Lincoln assassination during the 19th century, Wilcox provides not only the
names of the conspirators, but explains how they planned and orchestrated
the assassination of one of America's most beloved presidents. Wilcox also
reveals the men operating "behind the scenes" who supported the conspirators
in their attempts to avoid the U.S. authorities searching for them.
Unfortunately, for Papal Rome, Wilcox's detective work leads directly to its
doors. Pope Pius IX, Rome's Jesuit Order, as well as the secretive Knights
of the Golden Circle, are all shown to be involved in the intrigues
surrounding the bloody American Civil War of 1861-65.
Wilcox devotes much of his book to exposing the involvement of one of the
top conspirators in the Lincoln assassination: a man named John
Harrison Surratt. Surratt was the object of one of the greatest "manhunts"
in U.S. history. Wilcox in great detail shows how Surratt was assisted by
Roman Catholic priests who hid him in Canada, then helped him to escape to
England, and then on to Papal Rome itself, where he became a member of the
Pope's Pontifical Zouaves military units.
Wilcox also deals in length with the civil trial of Surratt in Washington,
D.C. (after he had been captured in Alexandria, Egypt), showing Roman
Catholic Church support for Surratt during the trial. Leading in this
assistance to Surratt was the infamous Jesuit Order, whose priests from
Georgetown attended the civil trial of Surratt.
C. T. Wilcox indeed covers much more than just dates and famous
personalities in this factual history concerning the assassination of
Lincoln, and the immediate fallout (trials, executions, etc.) from that
assassination. He delves deeply into the motives for carrying out this
vile assassination and the reasons why Lincoln had to be eliminated.
Just as important, Wilcox shows us that Papal Rome not only wanted Lincoln
and several other presidents out of the way, but has a much larger
agenda:destroying the American Constitutional Republic on its way to
resuming its role as the leader of the world in both secular as well as
religious affairs. Indeed, Wilcox's book is a vital link in exposing Rome's
designs to head up a one-world government and a one-world religion.
C. T. Wilcox has written a must-read book for those wanting to come to a
true understanding of the history surrounding America's Civil War of 1861-65
and the assassination of President Lincoln - a book that fills in many of
the "missing gaps" from that historical era and one that would make one
monster of a feature film.
Daryl Eberhardt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Member of the Knights of the Golden Circle
Member of the Knights of the Golden Circle
Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/jtx&CISOPTR=531&CISOBOX=1&REC=19
Title Member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, wearing a secession badge
and making the secret hand sign for the Knights
Creator Bruce, William M.
Date ca. 1860s
Part Of Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection
Place Marshall, Texas
Description This carte de visite is a copy from a ca. 1861 photograph.
Notes Verso: No. 283, Photographic Temple of Art, Marshall, Texas. Wm. M.
Bruce, Photographer. Two cent tax stamp affixed.
Related Resources MARC record:
http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2777978; Finding aid:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00085/smu-00085.html
Keywords portraits; men; Confederates; Confederacy; Civil War; KGC;
organizations; secession ribbons; cockades; visual arts; U.S. West;
Southwest; Texas
Physical Description 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount; 6 x 10 cm.
Form/Genre Cartes de visite
Portrait photographs
Photographs
Type Image
Digitization Date Digitized: 2010
Digital Format Displayed as image/jp2; uploaded as image/.jpg
Archival File Resolution Archival scan: Recto and Verso: 1200 dpi
Digitization Process Digitization process: archival files scanned at 1200
dpi and saved as .tif; derivatives from both sides resized and merged into
single file 3000 pixels wide and saved as .jpg
Box/Folder Number Series 2; Box 1
Call Number Ag2008.0005
Upload File Name ag2008_0005_00065c_member_knights.jpg
Archival File Name(s) ag2008_0005_00065r_member_knights.jpg;
ag2008_0005_00065v_member_knights.jpg
Digital Collection Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Library DeGolyer Library
Publisher Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University
Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality
version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting
degolyer@smu.edu.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/jtx&CISOPTR=531&CISOBOX=1&REC=19
Title Member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, wearing a secession badge
and making the secret hand sign for the Knights
Creator Bruce, William M.
Date ca. 1860s
Part Of Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection
Place Marshall, Texas
Description This carte de visite is a copy from a ca. 1861 photograph.
Notes Verso: No. 283, Photographic Temple of Art, Marshall, Texas. Wm. M.
Bruce, Photographer. Two cent tax stamp affixed.
Related Resources MARC record:
http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2777978; Finding aid:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00085/smu-00085.html
Keywords portraits; men; Confederates; Confederacy; Civil War; KGC;
organizations; secession ribbons; cockades; visual arts; U.S. West;
Southwest; Texas
Physical Description 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount; 6 x 10 cm.
Form/Genre Cartes de visite
Portrait photographs
Photographs
Type Image
Digitization Date Digitized: 2010
Digital Format Displayed as image/jp2; uploaded as image/.jpg
Archival File Resolution Archival scan: Recto and Verso: 1200 dpi
Digitization Process Digitization process: archival files scanned at 1200
dpi and saved as .tif; derivatives from both sides resized and merged into
single file 3000 pixels wide and saved as .jpg
Box/Folder Number Series 2; Box 1
Call Number Ag2008.0005
Upload File Name ag2008_0005_00065c_member_knights.jpg
Archival File Name(s) ag2008_0005_00065r_member_knights.jpg;
ag2008_0005_00065v_member_knights.jpg
Digital Collection Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Library DeGolyer Library
Publisher Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University
Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality
version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting
degolyer@smu.edu.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Filling in the Blanks: An Idea Garage Sale Interlude
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Excerpt: "When they reached Castroville - which, despite the presence of a
castle of the Knights of the Golden Circle, voted overwhelmingly against
secession - they were warned of a force being sent out to meet them from San
Antonio. The force arrayed against them was variously reported as somewhere
between 1500 and 1700 (the offical count was 1370) and included cavalry and
artillery to the tune of six field pieces. The full force of the US Army at
the time of leaving the frontier was 320, including 12 musicians. The
meeting of these two forces at San Lucas Springs 15 miles west of San
Antonio on May 9 was not so much a battle as a surrender, since by then the
Union force had been reduced to 270 by "sickness, desertion, and
stragglers...who remained at Castroville from drunkenness and other causes."
(All this is according to the official report.)"
Filling in the Blanks: An Idea Garage Sale Interlude
It is a truth not at all universally acknowledged that scientists and
historians, when interpreting data, are making stories every bit as much as
novelists are.
The big difference between a theory or hypothesis and a story is that a
story is entitled to bridge gaps and fill in story holes with invention;
whereas the most a theory or hypothesis is allowed to do is to point out a
hole and offer suggestions for where to look and what to do in order to fill
it. If these suggestions are investigated and pan out, this is called
"successful prediction" and the hypothesis is strengthened; if investigation
contradicts the hypothesis, the hypothesis is discarded or changed, as
appropriate.
A fiction writer can, up to a certain point, change her story to accommodate
new information, too, but once she's published she's locked in for the
duration. Jean Auel, for example, is now stuck with inarticulate
Neanderthals even though evidence uncovered since the first publication of
Clan of the Cave Bear indicates that they would have had a full range of
phonics available to them.
I do not, at the moment, have all the available data behind the site of the
dig just completed at the Old Alsatian Steakhouse site in Castroville, but
based on the data I have - consisting of local tradition, US Army reports,
and the parts of the dig I witnessed - this is what went down.
In April of 1861, due to the secession of Texas from the Union, all units of
the US Army were recalled from the frontier. Ben McCulloch, with dubious
authority, corralled General Twiggs of the San Antonio garrison and
persuaded him to surrender. His men were variously imprisoned or inducted
into the Confederate Army (more or less) and their equipment confiscated.
When Robert E. Lee came through town on his way to report to Washington,
McCulloch demanded his surrender, too, but Lee declared that, though he had
not yet decided where his duty lay, he knew he owned none to "any rebel
government of Texas" and refused. His luggage was confiscated, and was still
in San Antonio when the war ended.
The garrisons of the distant frontier forts Quitman, Davis, and Bliss were
still en route to civilization in early May. When they reached Castroville -
which, despite the presence of a castle of the Knights of the Golden Circle,
voted overwhelmingly against secession - they were warned of a force being
sent out to meet them from San Antonio. The force arrayed against them was
variously reported as somewhere between 1500 and 1700 (the offical count was
1370) and included cavalry and artillery to the tune of six field pieces.
The full force of the US Army at the time of leaving the frontier was 320,
including 12 musicians. The meeting of these two forces at San Lucas Springs
15 miles west of San Antonio on May 9 was not so much a battle as a
surrender, since by then the Union force had been reduced to 270 by
"sickness, desertion, and stragglers...who remained at Castroville from
drunkenness and other causes." (All this is according to the official
report.)
At some point in the process of straggling and getting drunk in one of
Castroville's 30+ liquor-providing establishments, some contingent of the US
forces got into conversation with one of Karle family, Unionists who had
recently purchased a property on the corner of Houston Square from the
equally Unionist Widow Krust on condition that they build her a little house
in the rear of the property and rent it to her at a dollar a year. Ben
McCulloch was confiscating all the US Army-owned equipment he could get his
hands on for the Confederacy. To prevent this, Mr. Karle offered his
property as a dump site for anything the people he was talking to wished to
get rid of. The soldiers took him up on this offer, unlimbered their
trenching tools, and dug a deep, narrow pit on the east side of his
smokehouse.
According to local story, these soldiers wished to take their chances
heading north on their own, so they would have counted in the official
report as deserters, though they were motivated by a desire to evade capture
and report for duty with the nearest Union forces. Based on the number of
mule bits found, all jumbled together, and the quantity of black leather, at
least one of them was a mule driver. At least four people dumped their sabre
belts, and one officer knew about the plan, because the leather holster of
his sidearm wound up in the pit; though in the absence of an officer named
in the report as a deserter I conclude that he gave the sidearm to one of
the deserters, wished him well, and returned to his duty station. Mr. Karle
donated some meat from the cookhouse (possibly fearing that the soldiers
would break in and help themselves if he didn't), and they ate and drank as
they dug, dozens of wine and beer bottles finding their way into the pit.
Perhaps Mr. Karle, originally planning to do a kindness to one or two
people, grew fearful as more men showed up - so many, and so drunk, and him
with children in the house! An infection of fear spread through the soldiers
as their alcohol intake increased, so that they dumped armloads of harness
and belts willy-nilly till, perhaps, dawn approached. The soldiers covered
the hole, but the disturbance of the ground was visible, so the Karles,
along with Frau Krust, piled trash on top of it as the men lurched away.
The spot became the household's regular dumping spot for all manner of trash
until garbage service was introduced in the 20th century. Once or twice,
before the construction of Medina Dam upstream changed the flood zones, it
was inundated. The cookhouse deteriorated and underwent repair, fences came
and went, tenants came and went.
In the early 21st century, Ken Smith rented a portion of the property from
Don Belcher, the current owner, for a restaurant, and undertook extensive
renovations to the portion of the sprawling structure (comprised of four
different houses) containing the restaurant space. Belcher agreed to the
construction of a barbeque pit by the old cookhouse, and his son
participated in part of the work. Belcher Jr. knew the trash pit contained
interesting junk, as he had once found a US Army belt buckle out there, and
worn it for some years. Sure enough, he and his fellow workers pulled out
lots of bottles (some of which they smashed for the fun of it), belt
buckles, a huge interlocking mass of mule bits, a leather holster, and
another belt buckle, before Arlene Smith asked them to stop. As a member of
the local historical society, she knew an archeological site when she saw
one, but it took her most of a year to find an archeologist who was
interested. At last she did, and the TAS field school was the result.
We never found what we most wanted - the insignia of the 8th infantry, which
would have confirmed the identity of the people doing the dumping - unless
it turned up in the last bucket of the last day, the one I was too dizzy to
attend. Everything we found was consistent with the story I told here, but a
number of different interpretations are also possible. Maybe the Karles
didn't volunteer. Maybe they were intimidated by drunken ruffians intent on
escape, or maybe the drunken ruffians dug the pit by night without
consulting them, or maybe the drunks broke into the smokehouse and littered
the property with their cast-offs, leaving the Karles to dig the pit in
order to hide the material and avoid the condemnation of their few, but
triumphant, secessionist neighbors. Maybe the material doesn't date from
this period at all, though since Castroville was never a military station
it's hard to match any other event with the distinctive army gear found.
(All those mule bits!) Maybe there was more than one deposition of army
gear, or it was moved to this location from another one at some point - with
so many artifacts coming out of an unstratified pile of barbeque pit spoil,
the available stratigraphy doesn't prove much.
As a novelist, I can pick a story and run with it. As a historian or
scientist, I would have to acknowledge lots of alternative scenarios and try
to suggest further action that could give us more information. In this case,
a painstaking document search (including perusal of private sources from the
time, such as letters and diaries) and digging up even more of the yard and
or digging deeper are almost the only options.
If you go to the Old Alsatian (and I recommend it - they accommodate dietary
restrictions and the food is wonderful) and ask Ken or Arlene or a random
server, they will happily tell you their version of the above story, which
will differ from mine in many respects because they are not me. They will
also, with varying degrees of prompting, tell you another story, one the
historians and archeologists won't, about the daughter of the Karle family
who died in 1856 at the age of 16, was buried in the yard, and now haunts
the dining patio. They might even tell you that the dig turned up part of
her gravestone.
This last detail is not true. While moving the rock fence, field school
members found a slab of native limestone with a broken edge and the numbers
"56" carved into it, but the carving is far too casual for a gravestone and
by 1856 the cemetery at Cross Hill was well-established. There would have
been no reason for the good Catholic Karles (remember that rosary? And the
property is cattycorner from the church) to bury a daughter in the yard.
Unless she was a suicide and the priest refused to bury her in sacred
ground; as I thought, but did not say. I would never slander the memory of
these people, whose family still live in the vicinity and of whom I have
heard nothing negative, by openly positing such a thing. But if I were
writing a story, and I weren't using Castroville but an analog small town,
and I needed a grave in the yard - well, that would be different.
When telling a story, you do what's good for the story. Facts are useful
servants but a bad master to a storyteller, and as long as that's clear in
everyone's head, no harm is done. Nor should we blame the Smiths if the
stories they tell their patrons polish the rough edges and fill in the holes
of the messy, incomplete truth. A historic restaurant without a ghost,
especially in an area with a high tourist traffic, is at a commercial
disadvantage; and one with a ghost moving bottles or appearing as an
apparition without any explanatory tale attached is not much better off.
Stories. We all make them, and we all use approximately the same methods to
do so, whether as historians, as novelists, or as contributors to the oral
tradition. The difference lies in the use to which we put the stories and
the degree to which we lock them into final form. History and the oral
tradition are fluid and can be adjusted with the discovery of new facts or
(in the case of oral tradition) new motives in telling the tale. Only
fiction has a point at which it is locked in; in which case, you'd better
tell it well enough that the audience that now has better information is
willing to set that information aside and believe in your story for the time
it takes to read it.
Posted by Peni R. Griffin
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
Excerpt: "When they reached Castroville - which, despite the presence of a
castle of the Knights of the Golden Circle, voted overwhelmingly against
secession - they were warned of a force being sent out to meet them from San
Antonio. The force arrayed against them was variously reported as somewhere
between 1500 and 1700 (the offical count was 1370) and included cavalry and
artillery to the tune of six field pieces. The full force of the US Army at
the time of leaving the frontier was 320, including 12 musicians. The
meeting of these two forces at San Lucas Springs 15 miles west of San
Antonio on May 9 was not so much a battle as a surrender, since by then the
Union force had been reduced to 270 by "sickness, desertion, and
stragglers...who remained at Castroville from drunkenness and other causes."
(All this is according to the official report.)"
Filling in the Blanks: An Idea Garage Sale Interlude
It is a truth not at all universally acknowledged that scientists and
historians, when interpreting data, are making stories every bit as much as
novelists are.
The big difference between a theory or hypothesis and a story is that a
story is entitled to bridge gaps and fill in story holes with invention;
whereas the most a theory or hypothesis is allowed to do is to point out a
hole and offer suggestions for where to look and what to do in order to fill
it. If these suggestions are investigated and pan out, this is called
"successful prediction" and the hypothesis is strengthened; if investigation
contradicts the hypothesis, the hypothesis is discarded or changed, as
appropriate.
A fiction writer can, up to a certain point, change her story to accommodate
new information, too, but once she's published she's locked in for the
duration. Jean Auel, for example, is now stuck with inarticulate
Neanderthals even though evidence uncovered since the first publication of
Clan of the Cave Bear indicates that they would have had a full range of
phonics available to them.
I do not, at the moment, have all the available data behind the site of the
dig just completed at the Old Alsatian Steakhouse site in Castroville, but
based on the data I have - consisting of local tradition, US Army reports,
and the parts of the dig I witnessed - this is what went down.
In April of 1861, due to the secession of Texas from the Union, all units of
the US Army were recalled from the frontier. Ben McCulloch, with dubious
authority, corralled General Twiggs of the San Antonio garrison and
persuaded him to surrender. His men were variously imprisoned or inducted
into the Confederate Army (more or less) and their equipment confiscated.
When Robert E. Lee came through town on his way to report to Washington,
McCulloch demanded his surrender, too, but Lee declared that, though he had
not yet decided where his duty lay, he knew he owned none to "any rebel
government of Texas" and refused. His luggage was confiscated, and was still
in San Antonio when the war ended.
The garrisons of the distant frontier forts Quitman, Davis, and Bliss were
still en route to civilization in early May. When they reached Castroville -
which, despite the presence of a castle of the Knights of the Golden Circle,
voted overwhelmingly against secession - they were warned of a force being
sent out to meet them from San Antonio. The force arrayed against them was
variously reported as somewhere between 1500 and 1700 (the offical count was
1370) and included cavalry and artillery to the tune of six field pieces.
The full force of the US Army at the time of leaving the frontier was 320,
including 12 musicians. The meeting of these two forces at San Lucas Springs
15 miles west of San Antonio on May 9 was not so much a battle as a
surrender, since by then the Union force had been reduced to 270 by
"sickness, desertion, and stragglers...who remained at Castroville from
drunkenness and other causes." (All this is according to the official
report.)
At some point in the process of straggling and getting drunk in one of
Castroville's 30+ liquor-providing establishments, some contingent of the US
forces got into conversation with one of Karle family, Unionists who had
recently purchased a property on the corner of Houston Square from the
equally Unionist Widow Krust on condition that they build her a little house
in the rear of the property and rent it to her at a dollar a year. Ben
McCulloch was confiscating all the US Army-owned equipment he could get his
hands on for the Confederacy. To prevent this, Mr. Karle offered his
property as a dump site for anything the people he was talking to wished to
get rid of. The soldiers took him up on this offer, unlimbered their
trenching tools, and dug a deep, narrow pit on the east side of his
smokehouse.
According to local story, these soldiers wished to take their chances
heading north on their own, so they would have counted in the official
report as deserters, though they were motivated by a desire to evade capture
and report for duty with the nearest Union forces. Based on the number of
mule bits found, all jumbled together, and the quantity of black leather, at
least one of them was a mule driver. At least four people dumped their sabre
belts, and one officer knew about the plan, because the leather holster of
his sidearm wound up in the pit; though in the absence of an officer named
in the report as a deserter I conclude that he gave the sidearm to one of
the deserters, wished him well, and returned to his duty station. Mr. Karle
donated some meat from the cookhouse (possibly fearing that the soldiers
would break in and help themselves if he didn't), and they ate and drank as
they dug, dozens of wine and beer bottles finding their way into the pit.
Perhaps Mr. Karle, originally planning to do a kindness to one or two
people, grew fearful as more men showed up - so many, and so drunk, and him
with children in the house! An infection of fear spread through the soldiers
as their alcohol intake increased, so that they dumped armloads of harness
and belts willy-nilly till, perhaps, dawn approached. The soldiers covered
the hole, but the disturbance of the ground was visible, so the Karles,
along with Frau Krust, piled trash on top of it as the men lurched away.
The spot became the household's regular dumping spot for all manner of trash
until garbage service was introduced in the 20th century. Once or twice,
before the construction of Medina Dam upstream changed the flood zones, it
was inundated. The cookhouse deteriorated and underwent repair, fences came
and went, tenants came and went.
In the early 21st century, Ken Smith rented a portion of the property from
Don Belcher, the current owner, for a restaurant, and undertook extensive
renovations to the portion of the sprawling structure (comprised of four
different houses) containing the restaurant space. Belcher agreed to the
construction of a barbeque pit by the old cookhouse, and his son
participated in part of the work. Belcher Jr. knew the trash pit contained
interesting junk, as he had once found a US Army belt buckle out there, and
worn it for some years. Sure enough, he and his fellow workers pulled out
lots of bottles (some of which they smashed for the fun of it), belt
buckles, a huge interlocking mass of mule bits, a leather holster, and
another belt buckle, before Arlene Smith asked them to stop. As a member of
the local historical society, she knew an archeological site when she saw
one, but it took her most of a year to find an archeologist who was
interested. At last she did, and the TAS field school was the result.
We never found what we most wanted - the insignia of the 8th infantry, which
would have confirmed the identity of the people doing the dumping - unless
it turned up in the last bucket of the last day, the one I was too dizzy to
attend. Everything we found was consistent with the story I told here, but a
number of different interpretations are also possible. Maybe the Karles
didn't volunteer. Maybe they were intimidated by drunken ruffians intent on
escape, or maybe the drunken ruffians dug the pit by night without
consulting them, or maybe the drunks broke into the smokehouse and littered
the property with their cast-offs, leaving the Karles to dig the pit in
order to hide the material and avoid the condemnation of their few, but
triumphant, secessionist neighbors. Maybe the material doesn't date from
this period at all, though since Castroville was never a military station
it's hard to match any other event with the distinctive army gear found.
(All those mule bits!) Maybe there was more than one deposition of army
gear, or it was moved to this location from another one at some point - with
so many artifacts coming out of an unstratified pile of barbeque pit spoil,
the available stratigraphy doesn't prove much.
As a novelist, I can pick a story and run with it. As a historian or
scientist, I would have to acknowledge lots of alternative scenarios and try
to suggest further action that could give us more information. In this case,
a painstaking document search (including perusal of private sources from the
time, such as letters and diaries) and digging up even more of the yard and
or digging deeper are almost the only options.
If you go to the Old Alsatian (and I recommend it - they accommodate dietary
restrictions and the food is wonderful) and ask Ken or Arlene or a random
server, they will happily tell you their version of the above story, which
will differ from mine in many respects because they are not me. They will
also, with varying degrees of prompting, tell you another story, one the
historians and archeologists won't, about the daughter of the Karle family
who died in 1856 at the age of 16, was buried in the yard, and now haunts
the dining patio. They might even tell you that the dig turned up part of
her gravestone.
This last detail is not true. While moving the rock fence, field school
members found a slab of native limestone with a broken edge and the numbers
"56" carved into it, but the carving is far too casual for a gravestone and
by 1856 the cemetery at Cross Hill was well-established. There would have
been no reason for the good Catholic Karles (remember that rosary? And the
property is cattycorner from the church) to bury a daughter in the yard.
Unless she was a suicide and the priest refused to bury her in sacred
ground; as I thought, but did not say. I would never slander the memory of
these people, whose family still live in the vicinity and of whom I have
heard nothing negative, by openly positing such a thing. But if I were
writing a story, and I weren't using Castroville but an analog small town,
and I needed a grave in the yard - well, that would be different.
When telling a story, you do what's good for the story. Facts are useful
servants but a bad master to a storyteller, and as long as that's clear in
everyone's head, no harm is done. Nor should we blame the Smiths if the
stories they tell their patrons polish the rough edges and fill in the holes
of the messy, incomplete truth. A historic restaurant without a ghost,
especially in an area with a high tourist traffic, is at a commercial
disadvantage; and one with a ghost moving bottles or appearing as an
apparition without any explanatory tale attached is not much better off.
Stories. We all make them, and we all use approximately the same methods to
do so, whether as historians, as novelists, or as contributors to the oral
tradition. The difference lies in the use to which we put the stories and
the degree to which we lock them into final form. History and the oral
tradition are fluid and can be adjusted with the discovery of new facts or
(in the case of oral tradition) new motives in telling the tale. Only
fiction has a point at which it is locked in; in which case, you'd better
tell it well enough that the audience that now has better information is
willing to set that information aside and believe in your story for the time
it takes to read it.
Posted by Peni R. Griffin
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Knights_of_the_Golden_Circle
http://knights-of-the-golden-circle.blogspot.com
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