The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War » (1)

Michael A. Halleran is a freelance writer and a practicing attorney in the Flint Hills of East-Central Kansas. A lecturer at Emporia State University, he is also an active Freemason, belonging to both Emporia Lodge No. 12, A.F.& A.M., and  Mount Zion Lodge No. 266  A.F.& A.M.,Topeka, Kansas.

 

Halleran received the Mackey Award for Excellence in Masonic Scholarship by the Scottish Rite Research Society for his article on Civil War Freemasonry in that society’s journal: Heredom, vol. 14 (2006). In addition, he is the author of a regular column for The Scottish Rite Journal.

 

He is a member of the Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle, and the Scottish Rite Research Society where he studies American military Masonry and the traditions of military lodges worldwide.

 

Contents

Preface....................ix
Acknowledgments....................xiii
Introduction....................1
Prologue....................8
1. Masters and Fellows....................31
2. Plures Ex Uno....................49
3. "If That Is Masonry I Will Take Some of It Myself"....................61
4. Saving the Life of the Enemy....................78
5. Gentlemen of the White Apron....................98
6. A More Decent Interment....................128
7. All Passions Laid Aside?: Free masonry in the Army....................140
Afterword....................159
Notes....................167
Glossary of Masonic Terms....................193
Bibliography....................203
Index....................223
Photographs follow page....................122