Talk:Knights of the Golden Circle

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Beyond the first paragraph, this article may contain copyright violations (material cut-and-pasted from the external links), and seems to contain some contradictions between amterial cut-and-pasted from different sources. AnonMoos 18:03, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

That is troubling but equally so is the detail that Bickley supposedly started the KGC in 1835 and then didn't start the first castle (chapter) until 1854. A very long incubation? I'll check the links to see if this was at least copied accurately. One of the sources, Donald Frazier, says KGC was founded in 1855 (page 13).

The eHistory link is the source of the 1835 reference and it is couched in the words "it is said" which suggests that this early date is doubtful. It also says that if it was started that far back, it was started by some unnamed men in South Carolina--not Bickley who was from Virginia. Where this article deviates from plagiarism, it goes directly to error. I will change the erroneous reference to the founding of the organization now, and perhaps edit the whole thing later so as to rid it of plagiarism.

The small portion of the article that deals with the Gettysburg Campaign is from a book I wrote, and since I wrote this section in the Wikipedia article, is used with my permission. Scott Mingus 11:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)