US Cav vs other than indians

[Ray Earle]

I seem to recall reading about Custer spending a lot of time chasing down the KKK in the southern states after the civil war.

http://custerlives.com/custer17.htm

[Leigh Metford]

Hypotheticals then? Anyone make mounted and dismounted KKK figures?

[The Red Graf]

The novel "How Few Remain" by Harry Turtledove is set in 1881. It includes US Cavalry fighting both a second Civil War and Custer and Teddy Roosevelt fighting off a British/Canadian invasion.

[HerbyF]

Don't know about any KKK figures specifically, but Brigade does some bush-wackers wearing sack hoods. The white sheets & hoods was really a later adaptation. Earlier KKK riders & raider would look more like common bush-wackers than the iconic KKK clansmen we see today.

[rebelyell2006]

If you want hypothetical situations, there are a few thanks to Fort Union in New Mexico.  One such situation would be an armed response to the peons joining the army in 1861, perhaps an armed band trying to bring them back to the farms while the army tries to keep them (which did not happen, because the patrons went with litigation to challenge the enlistment of their property, and the military responded by suspending the writ of habeas corpus in the territory).  Or perhaps the feuding between Fort Union and Loma Parda, that got bad enough that a small detachment looking for AWOL drunks was arrested by the mayor, and the army responded by sending in a larger detachment (but cooler heads prevailed, and nothing came of it outside of a military apology and better guards posted at the fort).  The army was called out on occasion to chase down gunslingers and armed gangs.  During the rise of populism and populist terrorism in the 1880s and 1890s, the army joined in the hunt for the Gorras Blancas.  The army was also called out on occasion to chase Anglo settlers off of Indian land.  These hypothetical situations could work anywhere from 1851 to 1891, giving a very long range of possible US cavalry weapons from dragoon pistols and M1841 rifles to the trapdoor Springfields.  The army had gatling guns and mountain howitzers at Fort Stanton, which would make for exciting skirmishes.  Particularly bold thieves could try to target the Fort Union warehouses, since most soldiers were usually out on detached duty (chasing the outlaws and Indians, along with other purposes) and many of the people remaining at the quartermaster areas were civilian contractors.

[Galloping Major]

Hypotheticals then? Anyone make mounted and dismounted KKK figures?

I agree with HerbyF. Post Civil War the early KKK made do with with little more than bags with eye-holes, those "kinky cultist" outfits were still a thing of the future.   So a pretty easy green-stuff conversion, on the right sort of figures for 1860s



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[The Red Graf]

I agree with HerbyF. Post Civil War the early KKK made do with with little more than bags with eye-holes, those "kinky cultist" outfits were still a thing of the future.   So a pretty easy green-stuff conversion, on the right sort of figures for 1860s



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Weren't they flour sacks originally? I always had this vision of them sneezing up a storm.

[carlos marighela]

Weren't they flour sacks originally? I always had this vision of them sneezing up a storm.

It's called 'suffering for your art'. The upside was that they didn't need to apply a foundation, just a touch of blusher to accentuate their cheek bones.