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  • Description is exactly "(14) A November 28, 1868 Nashville Union and American report by a Florence resident chronicling a visit to Florence "a week ago Saturday night" of some 500 Klansmen who during their five hours in town shot one African-American and hung "three or four others nearly dead," and whipping still others in order to terrorize them into disclosing the particulars of their local Union League, which met secretly and at night. They men took noting except "some few Enfield rifles" in the possession of a group of local blacks.

    Interestingly, when asked to unmask themselves the Klansmen did so, but were not recognized by anyone in Florence, leading me to believe these men may not have been locals. "

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This is a collection of articles related to the original Ku Klux Klan that formed just after the Civil War.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in late May or June of 1866 by six bored ex-Confederates in Pulaski, Tennessee: J. Calvin Jones; Frank…
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