KGC activity in NC

[jcrockster]

Can anyone recommend a book containing info on KGC activity in NC?

[Highmountain]

Can anyone recommend a book containing info on KGC activity in NC?

Here are some links that include books containing mention of KGC and North Carolina. Looks as though there might be something out there that will help you along:

http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/re...7?_IceUrl=true

http://snipurl.com/28ce1 [www_dogpile_com]

Good luck
Jack

[jcrockster]

Thanks for the links. These should keep me busy for quite some time.

[gldhntr]

The Mobile Mercury of the 3d inst., contains the following:
Headquarters American Legion K. G. C.}
Mobile, Ala., April 6th, 1860.}
General Order No. 564}
Circumstances, which will be explained at a proper time, and in the usual way, have caused me to issue this, my official order, and I hereby command all faithful K. G. C.'s to obey the same.
Colonels of regiments, upon the receipt of these presents, and special orders this day mailed, will issue their orders to all commanders of Castles in their respective States, to assemble their forces at the earliest convenience, and at once, on the closing of the business of the Castle, proceed to elect one or more delegates to meet in final convention in the city of Raleigh, N. C., which will be headquarters until further notice, on Monday, the seventh day of May, [337] 1860, to transact the following business.
1. To elect a permanent Commander-in-Chief for the military department of the K. G. C., to organize the several departments of the same, and to duly commission and confirm all commissioned officers.
2. To elect a permanent financial chairman, and to thoroughly organize the moneyed department of the K. G. C.
3. To elect a permanent President of the third or governing department of the K. G. C., and to enact a code in accordance with the laws of the United States and the objects of this association, and top provide a board of advisement.
4. To determine upon equipment and time of motion—to prepare an address to the people of the Southern States; to erect such a standard of membership as will clear the association of all vicious character, and do all other necessary and lawful work embraced in the honorable time of the K. G. C.
Delegates, whether from the organization or the people, will have to bring proper credentials. Southern gentlemen, with evidences of social position are respectfully invited to partake in every part of the labors of the Convention, except what pertains to the mere ceremonial of the order exclusively.
No political or religious complications or questions can be entertained by the said Convention, when understood in a partizan or sectarian sense. The Convention will sit from day to day, until its labors shall have been completed, when it will adjourn, to meet no more as a Convention in the United States. As the aims and objects of the K. G. C. have been so much misrepresented, and as they should be so dear to every Southern heart, the newspapers of the Southern States friendly to the advancement of Southern interests and American enterprise are respectfully requested to copy. All letters must be addressed to Raleigh, N. C.
George Bickley, K. G. C.,
President American Legion.
Gen. Quitman was the founder of the order of the K. G. C.

[gldhntr]

printed minutes of the above mentioned meeting available here;;;;

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would have posted the minutes but there are 40 pages........g