AT THE TERRIBLE BATTLE OF PITTSBURG
LANDING, OR SHILOH, CAPT. G.A. STRONG,
BELONGING TO ONE OF THE MICHIGAN
REGIMENTS, WAS FATALLY WOUNDED ON
SUNDAY, THE 6 th OF APRIL. CAPTAIN STRONG
WAS A MASON AND KNIGHT TEMPLAR. WHEN
HE RECEIVED THE FATAL WOUND AND FELL
ON THE BATTLEFIELD, HE HAD ON HIS PERSON
A FINE GOLD WATCH, AND WORE A MASONIC
BREAST-PIN. A CAPTAIN OF A TEXAS RANGERS
APPROACHED HIM, AS HE LAY ON THE GROUND,
AND DISCOVERED THE MASONIC EMBLEM ON
HIS PERSON. KNOWING THAT THE WOUNDED
OFFICER WOULD BE ROBBED, AND PERHAPS
MURDERED, IF LEFT WHERE HE HAD FALLEN, THE TEXAN HAD HIM CARRIED TO
A TENT, WHERE HE BOUND UP HIS WOUNDS AS WELL AS HE COULD, FURNISHED
HIM WITH WATER, AND TOOK MEANS TO PROTECT HIM FROM INSULT AND
ROBBERY. THE BATTLE WAS STILL RAGING, AND WAS RENEWED ON THE NEXT
DAY, MONDAY, WHEN THE NORTHERN TROOPS SUCCEEDED IN REPULSING THE
SOUTHERN ARMY, AND IN RECOVERING THE GROUNDS, TENTS, ETC., THEY HAD
LOST ON SUNDAY. ON TUESDAY, CAPTAIN STRONG WAS FOUND IN THE TENT
WHERE THE TEXAN OFFICER HAD LEFT HIM, STILL ALIVE AND FULLY
SENSIBLE, AND WITH HIS VALUABLES SAFE UPON HIS PERSON.
IT WAS OBSERVED BY ONE, WHO GAVE AN ACCOUNT OF THIS
OCCURRENCE, THAT A MASON,
THOUGH A REBEL, AND IN ARMS AGAINST HIS
GOVERNMENT, COULD NOT DO OTHERWISE THAN
PROTECT AND AID HIS WOUNDED, DYING OPPON-
ANT, WITH SUCH A TALISMAN OF PEACE INTER-
VENING BETWEEN THEM.
