Ku Klux Klan in Canada of the secessionist movement of the Confederate States of America and the abolition of slavery, which was the underlying cause of the war. The United States entered a period of Reconstruction, during which the infrastructure destroyed during the civil war would be rebuilt, national unity would be restored, and freed slaves were guaranteed their civil rights with the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments. In December 1865, six veterans of the Confederate Army established the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee. Presidents Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) and Andrew Johnson (1865–1869) undertook a moderate approach to Reconstruction, but after the 1866 election resulted
Company H, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Company H, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Company H, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery (1861-1865) was a Confederate Army artillery battery during the American Civil War. While the unit was assigned to a Tennessee Artillery Battalion, it was originally organized as the Magruder Guards volunteer company organized in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Also known as: Company D, 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion and/or Hoadley's Battery. Captain Frederick W. Hoadley's Pulaski County company, the "Magruder Guards", was originally designated as Company D, 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion. 4th Arkansas Infantry Battalion was organized at Little Rock, Arkansas, on November 10, 1861, with five companies, from Clark,