ON JUNE 13,1863 THE USS ALBATROSS,
            A UNION GUNBOAT, HAD BEEN BOMBARDING
            ST. FRANCISVILLE LA. FROM ITS ANCHORAGE
            IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THE SHIPS CAPTAIN
            LT. COMMANDER JOHN E. HART, DIED FROM
            YELLOW FEVER. BROTHER MASONS, ALSO
            OFFICERS OF THE ALBATROSS, REQUESTED
            BRO. HARTS BURIAL IN ST. FRANCISVILLE.

                       THE  MASTER OF FELICIANA LODGE
            WAS SERVING IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY,
            BUT THE LODGE'S SENIOR WARDEN, BRO.
            W.W.LEAKE, THOUGH ALSO IN THE
            CONFEDERATE SERVICE, WAS IN THE VICINITY.
            HEARING OF BRO. HART'S DEATH, HE FELT IT
            WAS HIS DUTY AS A SOLDIER AND A MASON TO
            HONOR THE BURIAL REQUEST. ALL THE
            HOSTILITIES WERE STOPPED, AND BRO. LEAKE
            JOINED THE UNION OFFICER'S FUNERAL
           CORTEGE WITH TWO OTHER LOCAL
           CONFEDERATE MASONS.

                         AT GRAVE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN
            FULL MASONIC CEREMONIES, COMMANDER
            HART WAS LAID TO REST.

                       SOON THE WAR RESUMED. BUT FOR
            ONE DAY IT STOPPED IN THE DEFERENCE TO
            MILITARY HONOR AND MASONIC 
            BROTHERHOOD.