Secret Societies of the Confederacy: Every Hidden Order From The South Explained | 4K Documentary

In July 1863, Union soldiers arrested George Bickley, leader of the Knights of the Golden Circle, the most notorious of the Confederacy's secret societies. In his trunk they found the order's rulebook and a card of secret signs. Female detectives found its brass seal hidden in his wife's clothes. Bickley had claimed he started the Civil War. This is the full history of the secret societies of the Civil War era, from the Order of the Lone Star's Cuba plots of the 1850s to the Red Shirts of 1876: how each began, what it wanted, what it did and how it ended. Built from period photographs, early film, newspapers and trial records. No AI-generated images. In this documentary: • George Bickley and the Golden Circle's plan for a slave empire • Clement Vallandigham, the Copperheads and the Sons of Liberty • Jacob Thompson's mission in Canada and the St. Albans Raid • John Wilkes Booth's plot to kidnap Lincoln • The first Ku Klux Klan and the 1871 trials • The White Camelia, the White League and the Red Shirts The myths it settles: • "The South seceded over states' rights." Four states wrote down why they left, and all four named slavery. • "The Golden Circle buried gold across the South." No documented cache has ever been found. 🔔 Don’t forget to LIKE, HYPE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE for more epic ominous content! ► Watch Some Of Our Other Interesting 4K Documentaries: Secret Societies of Imperial Japan - https://youtu.be/AsT0WWH590Q Secret Societies of Nazi Germany - https://youtu.be/B9SKAcJXuvM The Entire History of The Civil War - https://youtu.be/yqoacET7OMc The Entire War of 1812 - https://youtu.be/Ne2ajvT296M The American Revolution - https://youtu.be/y4-BNhK5DY0 Mystery of The Lost 9th Legion Solved - https://youtu.be/nh72Y4qVZnc Why Did Rome Destroy Jerusalem - https://youtu.be/i4L0iDqeHbI Did Rome And China Know Each Other - https://youtu.be/mAf7iiDw6hU Why Didn't Rome Industrialize - https://youtu.be/B2b1k7hCINM Why Did Rome Fall? - https://youtu.be/6kNwdhsE_dM Nostradamus Predictions Decoded - https://youtu.be/lKMIW4Ei3N8 The History of Secret Societies - https://youtu.be/IMq_hDHEF3o The History of Technology - https://youtu.be/B-KGFGxkIyA CHAPTERS 0:00 Secret Societies of the Confederacy Explained 1:11 Narciso López, Cuba and the Order of the Lone Star 5:46 South Carolina's Southern Rights Associations (1850) 7:43 The Minute Men of 1860: South Carolina's Secession Militias 10:29 Did the South Secede Over Slavery? The Declarations of Causes 11:57 Copperheads and the Sons of Liberty (Order of American Knights) 15:00 The Sons of Liberty's Secret Ritual, Oath and Password 18:14 The Northwest Confederacy Plot of 1864 20:23 Ex parte Milligan: The Treason Trials in Indiana 22:04 The Confederate Secret Service in Canada 26:04 The Johnson's Island Plot and the USS Michigan 27:35 The St. Albans Raid (1864) 28:30 The Camp Douglas Conspiracy (Chicago, 1864) 29:22 The Confederate Plot to Burn New York City 31:56 John Wilkes Booth and the Plot to Kidnap Lincoln 35:48 The Lincoln Assassination at Ford's Theatre 37:13 Was Jefferson Davis Behind Lincoln's Assassination? 39:35 The Hanging of the Lincoln Conspirators and Mary Surratt 41:09 How the Ku Klux Klan Started: Pulaski, Tennessee, 1866 44:46 Nathan Bedford Forrest and the First Klan 46:02 Klan Terror in Reconstruction: What Congress Found 49:32 The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and Elias Hill's Testimony 51:10 The South Carolina Klan Trials (1871) 53:20 The Knights of the White Camelia (Louisiana, 1868) 55:27 The Opelousas Massacre (1868) 56:57 The Pale Faces: Forrest's Testimony to Congress 57:48 The White Brotherhood and the Constitutional Union Guard 59:21 The Knights of the Rising Sun (Texas) 1:01:17 The Knights of the Golden Circle: George Bickley's Arrest 1:05:32 The Golden Circle Map: A Slave Empire From Mexico to Cuba 1:08:56 The Knights of the Golden Circle and Texas Secession 1:14:33 Did the Knights of the Golden Circle Start the Civil War? 1:15:40 The White League and the Battle of Liberty Place (1874) 1:16:18 The Colfax Massacre (1873) 1:18:06 The Red Shirts and Wade Hampton (1876) 1:19:25 The Mississippi Plan and the End of Reconstruction 1:20:31 The Knights of the Golden Circle Buried Treasure Legend 1:21:13 Was Jesse James in the Knights of the Golden Circle? 1:22:00 Did John Wilkes Booth Survive? The Legend of David George 1:22:56 Was Albert Pike a Klan Leader? 1:23:31 What Happened to the Confederate Gold? 1:25:41 The Lost Cause Myth and The Birth of a Nation 1:26:55 What the Confederacy's Secret Societies Achieved #secretsocieties #history #documentary