With the government that ruled over them arbitrary and capricious, the stage was set for a new kind of trouble. While none could yet imagine its size or brutality, its symbol would come in the form of a fiery cross. Born of men in hoods and robes, known by many names, it would be the Klan. Founded by a group of Confederate veterans in a small town in Tennessee soon after the succession of hostilities, their numbers would swell until they became...