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The first in-depth review of the Freemasons during the Civil Warfare Among the enduring yet little-examined styles in Civil Warfare lore is the wide-spread idea that on the field of fight and afterward, users of Masonic lodges would give aid and comfort to wounded or captured enemy Masons, often at great personal sacrifice and threat. This work is a deeply researched examination of the recorded, useful effects of Freemasonry among Civil Warfare members on both edges. From first-person accounts culled from regimental histories, diaries, and letters, Michael A. Halleran has designed a synopsis of 19th-century American freemasonry on the whole and Masonry in the armies of both North and South specifically, and provided sharing with examples of how Masonic brotherhood functioned used. Halleran details the response of the fraternity to the problems of secession and battle, and examines works of assist with enemies on the battlefield and in POW camps. The author examines carefully the major Masonic experiences from the Civil Warfare, specifically the misconception that Confederate Lewis A. Armistead made the Masonic signal of stress as he lay down dying at the high-water symbol of Pickett's fee at Gettysburg.