Hi Todd. While we bought all the topo maps of the area around Llano this past year, we still haven't been able to find time or a place to prospect there. Developments on the KGC treasure scene have kept me very busy all year with no end in sight. I am sure glad to have met you and I will definitely visit your shop when I am in the area next. I've got gold pans, a nice sluice box, and other placer mining equipment in storage collecting dust so maybe next spring we can plan an outing near Llano.
Yes, you definitely have several years of reading to do, if you want, at our group as we have an extensive archives of messages, photographs, links, databases, and files regarding Quantrill's Guerrillas and the KGC there.
The good news is that we have 4 moderators there and a few dozen longtime members who are always willing and available to help you find the information you want without having to spend all that time searching for it on your own. Please never hesitate to ask for assistance by posting a message on our board there or here (if it is related to treasure hunting).
~Texas Jay
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PawPaw Militia members of the Knights of the Golden Circle. I just found this amazing newspaper article from 1864 where a prisoner declared that as far as he knew all of the PawPaw militias were members of the Knights of the Golden Circle!
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DAILY TIMES [LEAVENWORTH, KS], July 29, 1864, p. 3, c. 2
A Paw-Paw at the Confessional?The Paw-Paws
of Platte County Sound on the Southern Goose
--They all intend to Fight with Rebels, but not
Against Them.
[From the St. Joseph Herald, 27th.]
A prisoner taken in Platte county has made some revelations concerning the intention of the Pawpaws. Below we give his statement, which is on file at the military Headquarters in this city.
July 24, 1864.
My name is Andrew E. Smith. I am 22 years old and live in Platte county, about two miles west of Platte City. I was a member of Captain Johnston's company of Pawpaw militia, under Major Clark, and served about six months. When I joined the Pawpaws it was understood by myself and members generally that, after drawing our arms, equipments, &c., we were to join the Southern army, and that Col. James H. Moss was to go with us to the South. I joined Thrailkill last Sunday, the 17th day of July, and was with him at Kingston, Mirabile and Plattsburg. Capt. Taylor took the goods which we stole at Mirabile and Kingston. After the fight yesterday I left Thrailkill. We had only 180 men.
I am a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle. I joined them at Platte City, and was sworn in by David Jenkins of that place. All of the Pawpaw militia, so far as I know, belong to them. Andrew Demaster, Wm. Brown, Thomas Brown and O. Teucher I know are members. The sign of recognition is the open right hand across the breast. Out of our company of 30 men 25 joined Thrailkill. The people of Platte county are, two-thirds of them, of Southern sympathies, and they all approved our joining Thrailkill, but wanted we should go South. They fed us cheerfully. I am a Conservative Democrat, and have always voted the Democratic ticket. Thrailkill promised to take us South as soon as possible. Five men have deserted from him since I was with him. Richard Lancaster and Stump Breckinridge, of Platte county, and three brothers, whose names I do not remember, deserted. We turned back in Carroll county, but we could not get south of the Missouri river.
A. K. Smith.
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~Texas Jay
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KGC Northwest Conspiracy
From: New York Times, July 23, 1864
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For more information about this very important KGC work in northern states during the War, I highly recommend the book "Confederate Agent" by James D. Horan, 1954. There are many excellent treasure leads in this book.
Online version of "Confederate Agent" at:
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