Mark, your analysis is completely wrong. I suggest you do a "simple search" of the War of the Rebellion Records for the keywords "Knights of the Golden Circle" and that you read "Blood & Treasure - Confederate Empire in the Southwest" by Donald S. Frazier, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1995. The Order of the American Knights was what General Sterling Price re-named the KGC to distract attention from that powerful Confederate organization (KGC) during his 1864 campaign through Missouri. The Knight of the Golden Circle operated widely across the entire U.S. under a number of different alliases.
~Jay~