L.C. BAKER
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Taking that into consideration, I believe that any Confederate cache that was buried in the South could have only been maintained by the immediate K.G.C. members responsible for burying it that had survived the Civil War and the first few months after it ended without being fingered by the local chapters of the Red Strings or Union League, or some malevolent turncoat that wanted to get in good with the newly placed local Union official. The K.G.C. wasn't known to have "clandestine" meetings in the South until after Bickley's 1861 Raliegh speech and instructions, so they would have been pretty well known locally. Those Southern inner circle members lucky enough to be still standing after the war were feeling pretty exposed by then and most of them had the notion to tuck their tails and lay low to avoid drawing any attention. If they had a castle left it was most likely weekly fortified due to casualties and incarcerations. In the beginning, they were put under Martial Law that was being enforced by men looking for people with a bad attitude about it. I have to wonder about the loyalty of those men that were left in 1866 that had the knowledge of K.G.C. caches made under duress for security reasons, not for long term retribution or to be used for "the cause". With that many poor pissed off people standing around it would have been tough to do without very long. To me, it makes sense that the large caches in the South would have been recovered first and if desired they would have been laid out in a more permanent safer location for any long term storage. Why would wanted men want to hide their money in the part of the country where they were looking for them the most unless they were under duress and had not planned for evacuation by the time the bloodhounds were at the gate. Could they have really been that careless? Hard for me to believe the inner circle could have been that unprepared for what they had known was coming for almost a year.
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