Southern States
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
11 states of USA which declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- In Colonel Elias Openshaw's attic were documents of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern States (FIVE 132).
- The Ku Klux Klan was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Southern States after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida (FIVE 347).
- The Ku Klux Klan flourished, in spite of the efforts of the United States Government, and of the better classes of the community in the South (FIVE 353).
- The Colonel Elias Openshaw's register and diary could implicate some of the first men of the Ku Klux Klan in the South (FIVE 358).
