Pogo
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Yup. Interesting factoid, many of the confederates who joined and for all intents bailed on the Klan when they saw what it was and where it was going.
You're apparently referring to the first (and only) General Order issued by Nathan Bedford Forrest disbanding the Klan and ordering its robes and various paraphernalia to be destroyed for exactly that reason.
That was January of 1869. Many of the vigilantes that made up the membership ignored the order and continued ad hoc for another four or five years before they were exterminated.