Bad Timing

Thomas A. Smyth, Washington Lodge 1, Wilmington, Delaware, was a Union Brigadier General in the Civil War.  Raised March 6, 1865, Brother Smyth was struck by a sniper's bullet on April 7.  He died two days later, a short 34 days after becoming a Freemason.  He was the last General to die in the conflict, and as he lay dying on April 9, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant sat in a farmhouse 20 miles away, accepting Lee's surrender.