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Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet
was Cipriani Ferrandini, newly arrived from
Corsica, who attempted to assassinate Lincoln
in 1861. The greatest source of their financial
backing was England. That country’s mills
needed the cotton produced by the southern
states.
Lincoln was aware that funding was coming
from England and would arrest and charge no
less than 13,000 men for disloyalty. The
founder was charged with spying for England,
and General Albert Pike took over. Pike was a
thirty-third degree Mason and handpicked by
Mason Jefferson Davis, the president of the
Confederacy. Pike would, after the war, become
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the driving force behind
the Ku Klux
Klan. The Klan
would also recruit
from Masonic lodges
and in some counties
membership was limited
to masons.
For many, like
Pike and his KKK
the Civil War did
not end at Appomattox.
A handful of
conspirators including
John Wilkes
Booth, a Mason and
Knight of the
Golden Circle, would of course eliminate Lincoln.
Like many assassinations, the investigation
would conclude with the death of a patsy or
the lower level conspirators. Later it became
known that Judah Benjamin, the Secretary of
State of the Confederacy who had ties to
Boston’s Caleb Cushing, a high ranking Mason,
had raised money not just for the South in general,
but one million dollars to fund the assassination
of Lincoln. A conspirator, John Surratt,
was dispatched two weeks before to Montreal
to get the funds. While several of the conspirators
were executed, Edwin Stanton, though suspected
in the media, stayed above the fray.
Stanton was given John Wilkes Booth’s diary,
and before returning, it took 18 pages. Incredibly
John Surratt left the country and fled to
the Vatican where he enlisted as a Papal Zoave.
Dr. Mudd, the man who helped Booth heal
and hide out was pardoned by President Andrew
Johnson, the man who became president
when Lincoln was killed.
Outlaw or Rebel
Just how independent Jesse James was, is
still a matter of debate. His older brother Frank
had joined William Quantrill in 1863 just before
the infamous Lawrence, Kansas, massacre.
Quantrill had put together an irregular army of
450 men who attacked that small city. They
killed 183 men and boys, anyone old enough to
pick up a rifle. It was an act that horrified the
Union and made the twenty-five-year-old Quantrill
a target. He still lasted two years before
being mortally wounded.
Before the war ended Frank James surrendered
in Kentucky. Jesse attempted to surrender
after being caught stealing a saddle but was
shot in the lung. His cousin Zerelda nursed
him to health, and he married her. Somewhere
along the way they both became Freemasons
and members of the Knights of the Golden
Circle.
After the war, both Frank and Jesse quickly
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