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Civil Government Was Crumbling Around Me: The Kirk-Holden War of 1870
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21755
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Abstract:
This article examines the 1870 conflict in North Carolina known as the Kirk-Holden War. The conflict began when members of the Ku Klux Klan from Caswell County murdered Republican state senator John W. Stephens. Republican governor William Woods Holden then sent a state militia unit under the command of George W. Kirk to arrest the clansmen.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 88 Issue 2, Apr 2011,
p123-163 , il, por, f
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