K.G.C. In Wisconsin

[Mohawk]

Here's a link the story is a good one. Check it out if you haven't already.
http://www.losttreasure.com/content/...sure-wisconsin

[lastleg]

Yep, Wisconsin was one of Jesse's favorite places to drink beer and holdup
banks. In fact there is no place in America, Mexico or Canada that Jesse has
not been to and left a fabulous cache behind. He never got back to get his
gold at Wildcat Mountain and anyone could easily find it. That is, if the watchers don't get you first. Sentinels often pose as Park Rangers so be very
careful.

[Texas Jay]

There is some important information about KGC activity in Wisconsin in what is called the Holt Report.
Here is a description Bob Brewer made in "Rebel Gold" about the Holt
Report.
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pages 42 & 43 - "The only official document to even hint that the
KGC, and thus a shadow Confederacy, may have gone underground in the
Deep South in the final phase of the war is the Holt Report, on file
at the Library of Congress. The 14,000-word submission to U.S.
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, dated October 8, 1864, provides
the most detailed account of the KGC. Entitled 'A Western Conspiracy
in Aid of the Southern Rebellion,' it is based upon Union
intelligence from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and
the border states of Missouri and Kentucky, but not from the South
itself.
Written by the highest-ranking officer in the military-justice system
at the time, Judge Advocate Gen. Joseph Holt, the report makes
several trenchant points and describes the KGC as the 'echo and
faithful ally'of the Confederacy.
Holt begins by acknowledging the existence of the KGC, 'chiefly
military in its character.' He asserts that as many as 500,000
Northerners were KGC members and estimates that as many as 340,000
men were trained and equipped for mobilization. No mention is made
of the number of possible inductees in the South.
The report emphasizes that the order promoted an
individual's 'absolute right' to own slaves as private property and a
state's right to resist 'coercion' from federal authorities. It goes
on to point a finger squarely at the KGC for precipitating
fratricidal conflict on American soil, noting that the subversive
society's 'detestable plotting culminated in open rebellion and
bloody Civil War.'
Holt concludes his report with the admonition: 'Judea produced but
one Judas Iscariot, and Rome, from the sinks of her demoralization,
produced but one Cataline, and yet, as events prove, there has arisen
together in our land an entire brood of such traitors, all animated
by the same patricidal spirit, and all stuggling with the same
relentless malignity for the dismemberment of our Union.'
But by far Holt's most intriguing comment appears near the end of the
document. It is this: 'A citizen, captured by a guerrilla band in
Kentucky last summer, records the fact that the establishment of a
new Confederacy as the deliberate purpose of the Western people was
boastfully asserted by these outlaws, who also assured their prisoner
that in the event of such establishment, there would be a greater
rebellion than ever! Lastly, it is claimed that the new Confederacy
is already organized; that it has a 'provisional government,'
officers, departments, bureaus, etc. in secret operation.'
With that provocative lead, the snapshot view of the KGC might have
been blown up, magnified to reveal the secret order's full colors.
It never was. History missed it, perhaps precisely because the KGC
was so effective at concealing its real plans, its motivations, its
intentions. Still, a reasonable attempt can be made to provide the
fuller, true picture of the KGC - based on what is largely
circumstantial evidence that plausibly links key players, places and
organizations in a convincing, interpretive framework...."
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From the extensive archives of:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bloodybillandersonmystery

~Texas Jay