The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War
ISBN-10
0817316957
ISBN-13
9780817316952
Series
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Category
History
Pages
229
Language
English
Published
2010-03-11
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Author
Michael A. Halleran

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.

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