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Excerpt from Knights in Fustian: A War Time Story of Indiana
Knights of the Golden Circle as a matter of little moment; and we of a later generation can hardly credit the extent of the organization, and the heinousness of its aims, which included crime and the disruption of the Union. Yet Governor Mor ton managed to keep every act of these Knights under surveillance. There was not a moment, says Dudley Foulke, in which they were not held securely in the grip of the war governor of Indiana. Quietly and firmly he broke up the organization by arresting the leaders, and pre vented an uprising which, if successful, would have told very seriously on the outcome of the war. Six men who were the leaders Of the order in Indiana were tried before a military commis sion and found guilty of treason, but were par doued by Mr. Johnson, after the assassination of President Lincoln, through the intercession of Governor Morton himself.
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