Papers, 1917.

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Papers, 1917.

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The collection contains the carbon of the typed transcript of Candace Sill Hopkins' pamphlet "A Tragedy on Deer Creek" and a Sill family genealogy. The pamphlet, 1917, describes an event during the Civil War in which about 300 Knights of the Golden Circle surrounded the home of James Sill and demanded that he turn over the military registration lists for Putnam County, Ind. The Knights of the Golden Circle were a secessionist civilian secret society active in the Midwest during the Civil War.

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Sill, James, b. 1809.

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Sill family.

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Hopkins, Candace Sill, 1846-1919.

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Knights of the Golden Circle

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Created in 1854 by George W. L. Bickley, a Virginia-born physician, the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret organization that sympathized with the southern states and sought to establish a slaveholding nation encompassing the southern United States and Central America in a “Golden Circle.” The group championed the preservation of slavery from the perceived threat of northern Abolitionism. By 1859, KGC membership spread through the southern states and Texas, where the gro...