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WARREN ARMY LODGE #10

In 1862, four additional dispensations were granted for lodges to be held with active-duty regiments during the American Civil War. Each dispensation was granted to a particular regiment. These dispensations expired at the end of 1865.

Dispensation Granted By: William Parkman

Regiment: 32nd Infantry

Precedence Date: 12/30/1862

NOTES

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 3, January, 1864, p. 96:

From The Battle-field. We have had relumed to us within a few days, a Grand Lodge Certificate, issued on the 14th May, 1863, to Br. Joseph H. Watson, by Warren Army Lodge, No. 10, attached to the 33d Mass, regt., then stationed near Falmouth, in Virginia. It was picked up after the recent fight at Rappahannock Station, and is supposed to have belonged to one of the five Federal soldiers killed in that battle, neither of whose bodies could be identified. The lappel of the coat of one of them had been torn away by a fragment of a shell, by which he was probably killed, and it is conjectured that the Certificate may have been in his breast pocket and thus thrown out. It does not however bear any marks of violence to authorize such a conjecture, and it may have accidentally fallen from the pocket of the Brother to whom it belonged, and who may yet be in the service of his country. If so, we shall be most happy to restore it to him on learning his whereabouts.

From Moore's Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 5, March, 1864, p. 142:

On the formation of Warren Army Lodge, No. 10, in the Army of the Potomac, the members of Henry Price Lodge, in Charlestown, made them a handsome present of all the regalia and working tools required. The following correspondence took place:—

Charlestown, Sept. 2, 1863. To the W. Master, Wardens and Brethren of Warren Army Lodge, No. 10 —

Your Brethren, members of Henry Price Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in this city, having learned that you have been working with great success in a Division of the Army of the Potomac, under a Dispensation from the Grand Master of Massachusetts, and being anxious to assist you in your laudable undertaking have procured for your use a set of Jewels,v Regalia and Working Tools, and have desired me, on their behalf, to forward them to you. They have been prepared in an humble and inexpensive style, regard being had to the temporary institution of your Lodge and to the necessities of military service in time of war. But they are presented with the hope that they will satisfactorily answer the purpose for which they are intended, and will serve to remind you of some of the most agreeable associations of home.

The donors belong to a Lodge which is named after the first Grand Master in North America, and holds its regular communications at the foot of Bunker Hill. Their humble offering may therefore recall to you the earliest reminiscences of Masonry in our country, and the patriotic sacrifices of the Fraternity during the Revolution. As Masonry was acknowledged to be a great assistance and sapport to our ancesters in the War of Independence, so may it prove to be to us in the War of Restoration, in which we are now engaged. Washington, La Fayette, Knox, Green and other brave officers and Masonic lights, attested the value of Masonry then, and may your own and other Lodges in the grand army of the nation realize it now.

Allegiance to country and to its lawfully constituted government, has ever been inculcated as a Masonic duty and virtue. May the conservative and kindly influences of our Institution hasten the day when the unholy spirit of Rebellion shall be exterminated from our national borders, and harmony shall again prevail in our beloved country, from the Eeisl to the West, from the North to the South.

Fraternally yours,
G. WASHINGTON WARREN,
On behalf of Henry Price Lodge.

Camp 32d Mass. Vols. Liberty, Va., Dec. 18, 1863.
To the Master, Wardens and Brethren of Henry Price Lodge F. and A. Masons—

Brethren — The members of Warren Army Lodge, No. 10, gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a set of Jewels, Regalia and Working Tools presented by your Lodge through Brother G. Washington Warren, and aak you to accept their sincere thanks for a gift so timely and valuable.

We value your present not only on account of the kindness and Brotherly love which prompted it, but more so because it comes from a Lodge which holds its Communications under the shadow of that consecrated spot where the noble martyr whose honored name we bear, gave his blood for the cause of Liberty and Free Government.

Let us hope that the same disinterested spirit; the same unselfish patriotism, which animated him may govern us, whether at home or in t!ie field; that our blood and our energies may be freely given to sustain and perpetuate this Union ; that our children and childrens' children may enjoy those blessings and privi. leges which we have enjoyed under the protection of the best government the world has ever seen.

Perhaps no better proof of the value and goodness of our Fraternity can bo found than the fact, that amid the bitter animosities of civil war, and a mistaken zeal for an unholy cause, repeated instances are shown where the Mason of the South has recognized the tie in his obligation, and extended a helping hand to our Brethren in distress.

May we not indulge the hope, that our Institution will be one of the links which will reunite the. severed country, and restore to our land the blessings of Peace, whose paths are so lovely, whose dwellings so beautiful. Fraternally yours,

LUTHER STEPHENSON, Jr., Master of Warren Army Lodge, No. 10.

Luther Stephenson, 1830-1885

• MM 1857, Old Colony

REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS

• Dispensation: 1862

LINKS

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