Sunday, September 18, 2011

Brother Saves Albert Pike's Home

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During a Union attack on Little Rock, Arkansas, Union General Thomas Hart Benton ordered his troops to guard the home of Albert Pike to protect the Masonic Library there.  Benton at the time was Grand Master of Iowa, serving in that office from 1861-63.

Benton was also the nephew of Missouri's first senator and Masonic Brother Thomas Hart Benton.

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