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Ku Klux Klan targeting Civil War sites

Civil War battlefields, magnets for tourists and the media, are a new target of the Ku Klux Klan.

The white supremacist organization will demonstrate Sept. 2 at Gettysburg National Military Park, site of the Civil War's bloodiest battle.

It will be the second event of its type in three months. About 30 Klansmen and members of like-minded groups rallied June 10 at Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Md.

Gordon Young, a Sharpsburg resident and imperial wizard of the World Knights of the KKK, obtained the permits for both demonstrations.

"The Klan is the ghost of the Confederacy," Mr. Young said yesterday in explaining his interest in battlefields where Southern soldiers fought and died.