Author : Michael A. Halleran
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0817316957
Book Description
The first in-depth study of the Freemasons during the Civil War From first-person accounts culled from regimental histories, diaries, and letters, Michael A. Halleran has constructed an overview of 19th-century American freemasonry. The author examines carefully the major Masonic stories from the Civil War, in particular the myth that Confederate Lewis A. Armistead made the Masonic sign of distress as he lay dying at the high-water mark of Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.