Pulaski, Tennessee the vicinity of Pulaski was the site of a number of skirmishes during the Franklin–Nashville Campaign. Union troops occupied the state from 1862. In 1863, Confederate courier Sam Davis was hanged in Pulaski by the Union Army on suspicion of espionage. In late 1865, during the early days of the Reconstruction Era, the city was the site of founding the first Ku Klux Klan (KKK) by six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army. John C. Lester, John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, and J. Calvin Jones established the KKK in Pulaski on December 25,
USS Pulaski (1854) not in a position to be navigated back to the United States. Subsequently purchased and renamed USS "Pulaski", she operated in South American waters from early 1859 until 22 January 1863, when she was decommissioned and sold by auction at Montevideo, Uruguay. In the first months of 1865 she was purchased by Paraguay. Until about 1870 she operated on the Río de la Plata as a civilian vessel. USS Pulaski (1854) USS "Pulaski", was a side-wheel steamship, in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Kazimierz Pułaski. Named "Metacomet" when built for commercial owners in 1854, she