CHAPTER IX.

THE KLAN IN TENNESSEE.

Misgovernment in Tennessee--The Loyal League and the State Administration--The K. K. K. an Outgrowth of the Conditions which the former Inspired--Rapid Development of the Order on Tennessee Soil--Its Purposes of Revenge--Legislation on the Subject-- Militia called out and Detectives Employed--The State pronounced a Ku-Klux Barracks--A Simultaneous Uprising of the K. K. K. throughout the State and Concerted Raids against the L. L. Rendezvous in various Neighborhoods--Military Accomplishments of the Grand Wizard--Subcommanders in Charge of the Expedition-- Capture of Secret Papers--Ku-Klux Hollow-square--Oath administered to Captives 88