>>3727703https://www.c-span.org/video/?312476-1/knights-golden-circle Here's some general history on the KOGC though if that's what you're interested in, but don't expect an excess of detail.
Spooks hide their prints well, and the KOGC was pretty fucking spooky.
My earlier rant about the continuation of their activities is more based on personal experiences than anything I've read; a kid in my class was from an old-blood Confederate elite family with KOGC and later UDOC ties, had an uncle who owned an exotic lumber importing business out of Nicaragua, had ties to the Contras during Reagan's administration, all the nasty shit.
It's less so that I can lay out a map for you proving that this shit continued after the war (I can give you some leads though, like J.S. Morton of the Morton Salt Company) and moreso that I'm just well aware that the ultimate goals of the Confederacy and the secret societies that were fueling it was Empire.
Those who conspired to build the grand American Empire (tm), whether they be Confederates, their domestic (Union territory) or foreign (British) allies got their way to a much truer degree than any abolitionist ever did.
In the end, nobody got their 40 acres & a mule, but we're all living out the slow collapse of the American Empire (the Europeans might seethe at this, but they're not seething in English because of the British...)
Next week in "History with isi" we can talk about the lasting impact socio-political impacts of the rich soil deposits of the central South left behind by the Cretaceous period's ancient coastline. (pic related) :^)
