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The Sequel of Appomattox

CHAPTER XI
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The officers adopted queer sounding titles and strange disguises.

Weird nightriders in ghostly attire thoroughly frightened the superstitious Negroes, who were told that the spirits of dead Confederates were abroad.

This terrorizing of the blacks successfully provided the amusement which the founders desired, and there were many applications for admission to the society.

The Pulaski Club, or Den, was in the habit of parading in full uniform at social gatherings of the whites at night, much to the delight of the small boys and girls.

Pulaski was near the Alabama line, and many of the young men of Alabama who saw these parades or heard of them organized similar Dens in the towns of Northern Alabama.


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