Sunday, August 3, 2014

Jacob Alson Long – Confederate Artilleryman, Klan Leader, Professor and Attorney

 Via Bernhard

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Jacob Alson Long – Confederate Artilleryman, Klan Leader

The son of Jacob and Jane Stuart Stockard Long, he was born 6 April 1846 at the old Long place near Graham, North Carolina.  Grandfather John Stockard served in the War of 1812 and represented Orange County in the General Assembly nearly continuously from 1826 to 1846. 

Jacob was schooled at Alexander Wilson’s academy near Graham and another at Hyco, Virginia, leaving school in 1864 to join Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, serving in the artillery until the end came at Appomattox. 

Returning to the family farm after the war, he studied law under William K. Ruffin (son of Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin) in Hillsborough and was licensed to practice in 1870.  In the turbulence of the immediate postwar, he established a branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Alamance County and quickly organized ten orders in Alamance and Caswell counties with many prominent area men on the rosters. 

*The Klan was organized to counter the radical Union League of the Republican party which was indoctrinating freedmen to vote Republican and against their white neighbors, as well as encouraging them to intimidate white residents with violence to keep them from the polls.*Union League


Long opened a law office in Graham until 1872, then served as a railroad conductor until 1873, and taught school for one year.  Relocating to Yanceyville, he practiced law for ten years, and eventually returned for good to Graham.  He was nominated in 1886 by Democrats for Solicitor of the Fifth District, but was defeated; in 1893 he was a successful candidate for the General Assembly and served one term.  

Jacob A. Long died on 4 October 1923. 

(Sources: Biography of Jacob Alson Long, Carolina Long Avery, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, editor, UNC Press, 1987, pp. 91-92; Reconstruction in North Carolina, J.G. Hamilton, 1914)   

10 comments:

  1. That's the first time I ever read the real reason the KKK was formed. I think there is a lesson in there for present times...

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    1. Thanks and I don't know if you realized that Dixieland is in Edgecombe County.

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  2. No, I didn't know that.

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  3. I wondered because I couldn't find any reference to Edgecombe County in what I read - will check out the Union League now - sleep later ....

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    1. When you click on the Union League link above, you will go to NamSouth.

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  4. I went to NamSouth and read the whole thing and then sent the link to my son to further his higher education ;)

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    1. Thanks, a little edukashun never hurt nobody........:)

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  5. yup, just look at us ;)

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  6. I watch a program called; Hell on Wheels... excellent show about the Union Pacific after the Civil war. They just touched on the Union League, and the carpet baggers that worked directly under U. Grant's authority, to 'restore order' to the Atlanta area.... as they are moved out of the south because they got a 'little out of control'... so Grant moved them to Wyoming, to take control, but 'no carpet bags'. As the rail road moved west.

    This speaks highly of Washington, and their agenda, from the beginning. Not to be a 'federal' gov, but a 'national' hegemon. Now, do we see this same friggin process all over again, with political correctness as their weapon of choice? Their end game?
    Back then, they(DC) were beholden to the NY bankers, I'm beginning to see, that from almost the beginning, we've been had. Logically, to maintain such an agenda over years, exercising the strings, there had to be some kind of family, conspiracy or hidden knowledge at work... that could work continuously for over a hundred years, since, DC is populated by temporary employees. This is only possible by one thing, money.

    It is a hard thing to lose all you've believed in, and figured out it was all a lie. The other day, when I was in the grocery store, a mexican female was in front of me, she pulled out an ebt card... couldn't speak english... but I was paying for her to eat... but, to eat better than me.

    I was incensed. I couldn't hold it in... I looked at her and said "Get your asses out of this country." It almost got ugly, when she simply gave me a sneer, a SNEER, turned around and left... if my wife hadn't been there... "That wasn't very nice." she says. "I sent a message to her people. The time of nice may be over, and, we didn't start it."

    I finally see it. Democrat voters... Republican workers... Catholic tithes... = Happy money changers.

    Michael

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