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| SHILOH |
| 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 TEMPLER. WHEN HE RECIEVED 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 APPROCHED 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- ENT, WITH SUCH A TALISMAN OF PEACE INTER- VENING BETWEEN THEM. |
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