The New York Crowd

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David Keehn might. He's the gentleman who spoke at last year's Surratt conference on the Knights of the Golden Circle. His book is due out soon, and he has been asked to do signings at the 2013 conference. I read his work while still in manuscript form, and it was very good.

Many historians have written off the KGC as being nothing much from the beginning and fading away when the war began. David found a lot to refute this. And, if I remember correctly, its influence did not just extend to the south and west. He did find that Michael O'Laughlen's older brother was a member of the Baltimore group, and he was looking for concrete evidence that Booth was also a member there. William O'Laughlen and Booth were childhood friends, and Michael was the baby brother who tagged along.

Herb needs to chime in because I know that he has done a lot of research on dissidents in northwestern New York.

P.S. The only caution I would give about using this forum publically to share extensive research and knowledge is that there are pseudo-historians out there who will let y'all do the work and then take your information and run with it into publication.