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,
The Casimir Pulaski Foundation The Casimir Pulaski Foundation The Casimir Pulaski Foundation ("Fundacja im. Kazimierza Pułaskiego, FKP") is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan think tank based in Warsaw, Poland specializing in foreign policy and security research. Founded in 2004, the foundation concentrates in its research in two areas: transatlantic relations in the context of security policy and research in the post-Soviet sphere of influence. Other points of interests include Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The Pulaski Foundation provides strategic analysis and solutions for government policy makers, the private sector and civil society that give insight into the future and predict upcoming changes.