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Anyone heard of this group before and have any input? I was watching a show last night which discussed them. According to one historian interviewed, the (at least semi-covert) group had a larger-scale plan of uniting the Confederacy and Union with the Caribbean to form one large sugar-plantation-type economy. The general belief was that after the Confederate gold/treasure was stolen while being transported out West, the Knights of the Golden Circle managed to get its hands on it and hid it. This gold still has not been recovered, and amounts to some $20 million in today's money. Rumors continue that the KGC continues to exist today in one form or another and safeguards the Confederate treasure.I thought that this last part about the continued guardianship of the treasure was a bit out there, but I thought it was interesting to hear about the KGC existing as a kind of secret society. Anyone else come across these people in your research?
I have never heard of them and you would think that their story would be more widespread if there was even a grain of truth to the story that they have a stash of confederate treasure.
They get mentioned, very briefly in a couple of classes I took (some US History classes and the upper level Civil War class)… but it seems like they get relegated to the whole Templar/Masons/Illuminati arena… They most certainly existed, but beyond that I think their agenda may never be known… You have people saying the John Wilkes Booth and even Jesse James belonged to the KotGC... I think some of that is myth building propaganda... but again, unless a real document pops up we will never know...
