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1. Col. Charles L. Holbrook, a member of McClellan Army Lodge No. 6 (43rd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry [Militia]), was also a member of Columbian Lodge in Boston in civilian life. In this undated photo, he wears a Masonic pin on his uniform. (Collection of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts at the National Heritage Museum, GL2004.5419, photograph by David Bohl.) 2 and 3 (inset). Maj. Everett Lane, also a member of McClellan Army Lodge No. 6 (43rd Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry [Militia]), seen here wearing another Masonic device while in uniform . Masonic emblems such as this were worn in battle. (Collection of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts at the National Heritage Museum , GL2004.5419, photograph by David Bohl.) 4. The Union ironclad USS Baron De Kalb (formerly USS St. Louis) bearing what appears to be the square and compasses between her stacks. (National Archives.) 5. “Custer’s men drawing the seven fatal slips at Rectortown,” by James E. Taylor, ca. 1863. The artist depicts the “lottery of death” carried out by Mosby’s men in retaliation for Union treatment of Confederate prisoners and includes an unmistakable display of Masonic fellowship as indicated at right. (The Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.) 7. St. John’s Lodge No. 3, lodge-room carpet extensively decorated with Masonic symbols. (North Carolina Collection , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) 6. St. John’s Lodge No. 3, A.F. & A.M., New Bern, North Carolina, ca. 1863, with Union soldiers visible in the foreground. (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) 8. “A Masonic Temple, commodious and a beautiful work of art, constructed of the rustic materials the Island afforded” by Masons of the 1st New York Engineer Regiment on Folly Island, South Carolina, in November 1863. The photo shows the altar (foreground), Master’s chair (background), and the station of the Junior Warden at right. Note the military stores that form the pedestal for the Junior Warden. Photograph by Samuel Cooley. (Massachusetts MOLLUS Photograph Collection, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.) 9. Hand painted, silk Masonic apron found on the battlefield of Stones River, Tennessee, (Second Battle of Murfreesboro) by Col. Hans C. Heg, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in January 1863, and likely discarded by a Masonic soldier. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum.) Heg, who was later killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, was a member of Temple Lodge No. 96, Waterford, Wisconsin. ...

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