Notes
Notes Introduction 1. The Harriet Lane was a side-wheeled gunboat of 619 tons, with a crew of one hundred. She was armed with three 32-pounders and four 24-pounder howitzers. See United States Naval War Records Office, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, series I, vol. 5, p. 704, hereafter cited as ORN; see also John Thomas Scharf, History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel, 2nd ed. (Albany, NY: J. McDonough, 1894), 505–7. 2. United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, series 1, vol. 15, chap. 27, “Recapture of Galveston, Tex.,” 218–19, hereinafter cited as OR. 3. Allen E. Roberts, House Undivided, the Story of Freemasonry and the Civil War, 2nd ed. (Richmond, VA: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., 1990), 145–46. Also buried that day was Wainwright’s second in command, Lt. Edward Lea, who was killed in the boarding action. In one of the war’s many ironies, among the boarders of the Harriet Lane was Confederate army officer Maj. Albert Miller Lea—Lt. Edward Lea’s father. His son died in his arms. See W. T. Block, “A Towering East Texas Pioneer: A Biographical Sketch of Colonel Albert Miller Lea,” East Texas Historical Journal 32, no. 2 (1993): 23–33, at 23. 4. Frank P. Graves, The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks (Brooklyn, NY: Columbia College, 1891), 10. 5. Charles Mills, The History of the Crusades for Recovery and Possession of the Holy Lands (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844), 52. 168 / Notes to Pages 2–12 6. Mark C. Carnes, Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989), 1. 7. U.S. Bureau of the Census, The Eighth Census [1860] (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1864), 15. For Georgia Masonic membership numbers, see William Henry Rosier and Fred L. Pearson Jr., Grand Lodge of Georgia, 1786–1980 (Macon, GA: Educational and Historical Commission, Grand Lodge of Georgia, 1983). Prologue 1. For accounts detailing the supposed meeting of Hancock and Armistead behind the lines at Gettysburg, see Matthew Page Andrews, The Women of the South in War Times (Baltimore: Norman, Remington, 1920), footnote, p. 224; H. F. Lewis, “General Armistead at Gettysburg,” Confederate Veteran 27, no. 11 (1920): 406. 2. Wayne E. Motts, Trust in God and Fear Nothing: Gen. Lewis A. Armistead, CSA (Gettysburg, PA: Farnsworth House, 1994), 8–10, 12–13. 3. Robert K. Krick, “Armistead and Garnett: The Parallel Lives of Two Virginia Soldiers,” in The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond, ed. Gary W. Gallagher (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), 112–13. See also Motts, Trust in God, 36–37; “Did General Armistead Fight on the Federal Side at First Manassas or Confess When Dying at Gettysburg That He Had Been Engaged in an ‘Unholy Cause’?” Southern Historical Society Papers 10 (August–September 1882): 424–28; and Confederate Veteran 15, no. 12 (1907): 552. 4. Jeffrey G. Burcham, Master of Winchester Hiram Lodge No. 21, A.F. & A.M, Winchester, Virginia, “Letter to Most Worshipful Donald M. Robey, July 24, 1993,” a copy of which is in the author’s possession (courtesy Wayne E. Motts). 5. Paul M. Bessel, “Letter to Wayne E. Motts, December 21, 1994,” with enclosed manuscript of Donald M. Robey, Past Grand Master of Virginia, a copy of which is in the author’s possession (courtesy Wayne E. Motts). 6. History of Union Lodge No. 7, Junction City, Kansas, 1857–1976. Undated, pp. 13–14. 7. Interview with W. Ron McKenzie Sr., Secretary, Union Lodge No. 7, Junction City, Kansas, 18 May 2007. 8. See Motts, Trust in God, 16. 9. Earl J. Hess, Pickett’s Charge—The Last Attack at Gettysburg (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), 40; Stephen W. Sears, Gettysburg (New York: Mariner, 2004), 52. 10. Arthur J. L. Fremantle, The Fremantle Diary (Short Hills, NJ: Burford Books, 1954), 210. Notes to Pages 13–18 / 169 11. Richard Rollins, ed., Pickett’s Charge: Eyewitness Accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2005), 11. 12. Ibid., 10. 13. It is interesting to note that Armistead’s forlorn hope was not the only penetration of the Union lines that day. A few hundred yards south of the copse of trees, the line held by Hall’s 59th New York...
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