Friend
to Friend Memorial
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
#NC-10302-MM - Notecards
Also available in Assortment Pack #AST-854
Open Edition Prints will be available early 2003
Dedicated
August 21, 1993
This
stirring monument depicts the seriously wounded Confederate General
Lewis A. Armistead handing his watch to Harry H. Bingham, a Union
Captain. Both men were Masons, and Bingham had rushed to Armistead’s
side when the General gave a Masonic sign asking for assistance
after being shot twice. When Armistead requested to speak with
his close friend and fellow Mason, Union General Winfield S. Hancock,
he was informed that Hancock also had been very badly wounded
during Pickett’s Charge minutes earlier. Bingham assisted Armistead
to a hospital, where he died two days later. Upon recovering,
Hancock was given Armistead’s watch.
The
Mason’s Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania undertook this monument to
immortalize one of the greatest examples Freemasonry’s bonds of
friendship, compassion and brotherly love. Ron Tunison, the memorial’s
sculptor, is a Freemason.
Text
© 2002 Terry White, Drawing © 2002 Bill Harrah
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