...And They Called us Nancys

...And They Call Us Nancys is a fictionalized biography of Capt. John C. Lester, CSA, of Pulaski, Tennessee. He was founder of the original Ku Klux Klan, and a great-great uncle of the author. It traces his life and times from 1840 through the Civil War, until his death in 1903. A long-held family secret, it exposes the real reason for Lester's having formed the Klan with five other Confederate soldiers. The book answers why, on Christmas Eve in 1865, the group chose to be together after fo...