The Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial in the Gettysburg National Cemetery depicts a scene where the fatally wounded Confederate General Lewis Armistead entrusts his personal effects to Union Captain Henry H. Bingham, knowing him to be a Brother Freemason. The memorial, a gift from the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, is dedicated to the Freemasons of the Civil War, "Their unique bonds of friendship enabled them to remain a brotherhood undivided..." This incident and other instances of Masonic bonding in the civil war are covered in Brother Michael Halloran's 2010 book, The Better Angles of our Nature: http://amzn.to/g9IDpb
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