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Keith,I have never found any connection but, then again it's a secret....
Secret societies exist to this day. Pres. Bush said to be Skull and Bones.Does Skull and Bones rule the U.S.?Your guess is as good as mine.Can you prove it?...Can you write a best seller about it?...
Freemasons did things during the war that circumvented the norm.That is a fact.Was it the policy of the Scottish Rite to overthrow the Federal Gov. or to help fellow Masons?Was it the policy of the Scottish Rite to give this great country States Rights?
There was a evolution of the Knights first set up to form a Southern Empire not a Confederacy.Two different things.The founding coincides with the abolisionists movements in the north.There are always two sides to a coin.Founded by a scammer to put money in his pocket by the way who left town under duress.Kept traveling raising money avoiding creditors. Went to Texas to invade Mexico.Didn't happen.Its organization and ceremonies set up much like the Freemasons possibly that is the connection.
Did you know there were secret societies in the south pro north?The Order formed in Gainesville,Texas in 1861.Legal League,Order of Heroes,Peace Society, Peace and Constitution Society to name a few.
O.A.K., Order of American Knights, were more active in MO. then the Knights of the Golden Circle which by todays standards were in Chapter 11 before the war broke out.That is not to say pockets of southerners as well as border state men for seccession didn't exist and organize.Peace Democrates fall into this catagory.By any other name the Confederate Spy network did exist. The Federal Gov. had infiltrated most of these societies in the upper levels proving them ineffective.Reality their numbers while are,high side, estimated in the hundreds of thousands a small percentage of the total population of the U.S. at that time.
This is one of those things that can be a hornets nest. My intentions are not to create a debate only to inspire study.

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