As the descendant of Southern Unionist Republicans who fought against the Confederacy I have no love whatsoever for the original Reconstruction-era Klan. However, in the interests of truth and honesty it must be understood that the ORIGINAL Reconstruction Klan was NOT anti-Semitic (or anti-Catholic) in the slightest. It even had Jewish and Catholic members (including Jefferson Davis’ personal [Jewish] physician Dr. Simon Baruch, the father of Bernard Baruch).