Harrison H. Dodd

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Harrison Horton Dodd (February 29, 1824 – June 2, 1906) was a founder of the 1860s-era OSL (Order of Sons of Liberty),[1] a paramilitary secret society which was a continuation and/or extension of the KGC (Knights of the Golden Circle). The basic goal of members of the OSL was to thwart the war efforts of the Union military forces (as epitomised in the war policies of Abraham Lincoln and his close political and military allies), while remaining citizens of the United States.

Life

Harrison Horton Dodd was born in

Know-Nothing Party banner in 1855. He moved to Indianapolis, Indiana the next year,[1] establishing himself as a printer and an active participant for the Democratic Party.[2]
He died in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. Genealogy of the Daniel Dod family page 89

During the first year of the war, when Democrats were sometimes forced to take oaths of allegiance, Dodd advertised to start "Marion Dragoons," a company of soldiers to fight for the Union army. However, the company never actually formed.[3]

Political career

Dodd frequently campaigned against

Methodist preacher that Dodd was a traitor. The local provost marshal without the authority to do so arrested Dodd. Local Democrats threatened a riot, and Dodd was freed with a promise that he would stop any such riot from occurring.[5] Felix Grundy Stidger (1836–1908), a U.S. Secret Service Agent who had successfully infiltrated the OSL (Order of Sons of Liberty) and held the position of Grand Secretary of the OSL for the state of Kentucky, claimed that Dodd was planning on the releasing of the Confederate prisoners at Camp Morton.[6]

On August 20, 1864 Dodd's offices were raided by the Union military, recovering thousands of rounds of ammunition and 400 revolvers, labelled "Sunday school books". Several of his co-conspirators, including

United States Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase issued a writ of habeas corpus, freeing them, on April 3, 1866. On December 17, the Court ruled that since the civil courts were still functioning in Indiana at the time they were convicted by military commission, the convicted were denied constitutional protections and were freed under a holding styled as Ex parte Milligan.[8]

Returning from Canada after the trials, Dodd served several terms as mayor of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin as a Republican,[1] joining the party of his wartime enemies Morton and Lincoln.[4]

References

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    Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Bodenhamer pp. 507, 508
  3. ^ Holliday p. 37
  4. ^ a b Bodenhamer p. 508
  5. ^ Klement p. 101
  6. ^ Bodenhamer p. 476
  7. ^ Klement p. 227
  8. ^ Bodenhamer pp. 444, 445, 508
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