Civil War Generals – Union – and Freemasonry
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HU = information is from the Appendix B of House Undivided: The Story of Freemasonry and the Civil War, by Allen E. Roberts, published by Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., Richmond, Virginia, 1961.
HU-10,000 = House Undivided citing 10,000 Famous Freemasons
Names of all Civil War Union Generals (that I know about) | Masonic information for those who appear to have been involved with Freemasonry |
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Abercrombie, John Joseph | |
Allen, Robert | |
Alvord, Benjamin | |
Ames, Adelbert | |
Ammen, Jacob | |
Anderson, Robert | Mercer Lodge #50, New Jersey |
Andrews, Christopher Columbus | |
Andrews, George Leonard | |
Arnold, Lewis Golding | |
Arnold, Richard | |
Asboth, Alexander Sandor | |
Augur, Christopher Columbus | |
Averell, William Woods | |
Ayres, Romeyn Beck | |
Bailey, Joseph | Columbia Lodge #124, Wisconsin |
Baird, Absalom | |
Baker, Edward Dickinson | |
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss “Commissary Banks” | Monitor Lodge, Massachusetts |
Barlow, Francis Channing | |
Barnard, John Gross | |
Barnes, James | |
Barnes, Joseph K | |
Barnum, Henry Alanson | |
Barry, William Farquhar | |
Bartlett, Joseph Jackson | |
Bartlett, William Francis | |
Baxter, Henry | |
Bayard, George Dashiell | |
Beal, George Lafayette | Oxford Lodge #18, Maine |
Beatty, John | |
Beatty, Samuel | |
Belknap, William Worth | |
Benham, Henry Washington | |
Benton, William Plummer | Webb Lodge #24, Indiana |
Berry, Hiram Gregory | Aurora Lodge #50, Maine |
Bidwell, Daniel Davidson | |
Birge, Henry Warner | |
Birney, David Bell | Franklin Lodge #134 Pennsylvania |
Birney, William | |
Blair, Francis Preston Jr | |
Blenker, Louis (Ludwig) | |
Blunt, James Gillpatrick | |
Bohlen, Henry | |
Bowen, James | |
Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford | |
Bradley, Luther Prentice | |
Bragg, Edward Stuyvesant | |
Brannan, John Milton | |
Brayman, Mason | Springfield Lodge #4, Illinois |
Briggs, Henry Shaw | |
Brisbin, James Sanks | |
Brooke, John Rutter | Columbia Chapter #21, Pennsylvania |
Brooks, William Thomas Harbaugh | |
Brown, Egbert Benson | Toledo Lodge #144, Ohio |
Buchanan, Robert Christie “Old Buck” | |
Buckingham, Catharinus Putnam | |
Buckland, Ralph Pomeroy | |
Buell, Don Carlos | |
Buford, John | |
Buford, Napoleon Bonaparte | |
Burbridge, Stephen Gano | |
Burnham, Hiram | |
Burns, William Wallace | |
Burnside, Ambrose Everett | |
Bussey, Cyrus | |
Busteed, Richard | |
Butler, Benjamin Franklin “Beast”, “Spoons” | Pentucket Lodge, Massachusetts |
Butterfield, Daniel | Metropolitan Lodge #273, New York |
Cadwalader, George | |
Caldwell, John Curtis | |
Cameron, Robert Alexander | |
Campbell, Charles Thomas | |
Campbell, William Bowen | |
Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg | |
Carleton, James Henry | American Union Lodge #1, Ohio (Grand Master) |
Carlin, William Passmore | |
Carr, Eugene Asa | |
Carr, Joseph Bradford | |
Carrington, Henry Beebee | |
Carroll, Samuel Sprigg | |
Carter, Samuel Powhatan | |
Casey, Silas | |
Catterson, Robert Francis | |
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence | United Lodge #8 in Brunswick, Maine |
Chambers, Alexander | |
Champlin, Stephen Gardner | |
Chapin, Edward Payson | |
Chapman, George Henry | |
Chetlain, Augustus Louis | Washington Lodge #43, Illinois |
Chrysler, Morgan Henry | St. John’s Lodge 22, New York |
Clark, William Thomas | |
Clay, Cassius Marcellus | |
Clayton, Powell | |
Cluseret, Gustave Paul | |
Cochrane, John | |
Connor, Patrick Edward | |
Connor, Selden | |
Cook, John | HU – citing Boyden Index of the Scottish Rite |
Cooke, Philip St George | |
Cooper, James | |
Cooper, Joseph Alexander | |
Copeland, Joseph Tarr | |
Corcoran, Michael | |
Corse, John Murray | |
Couch, Darius Nash | |
Cowdin, Robert | HU – citing Boyden Index of the Scottish Rite |
Cox, Jacob Dolson | |
Craig, James | |
Crawford, Samuel Wylie | |
Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas | HU – 10,000 |
Crittenden, Thomas Turpin | HU – 10,000 |
Crocker, Marcellus Monroe | Pioneer Lodge #22, Iowa |
Crook, George | |
Croxton, John Thomas | HU – 10,000 |
Cruft, Charles | Terra Haute Lodge #19, Indiana |
Cullum, George Washington | |
Curtis, Newton Martin | |
Curtis, Samuel Ryan | HU – citing Boyden Index of the Scottish Rite |
Custer, George Armstrong “Autie”, “Fanny”, “Curly” | |
Cutler, Lysander “The Gray Wolf”, “Woodchuck” | |
Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh | |
Davidson, John Wynn | |
Davies, Henry Eugene | |
Davies, Thomas Alfred | |
Davis, Edmond Jackson | |
Deitzler, George Washington | |
Delafield, Richard | |
Dennis, Elias Smith | |
Dent, Frederick Tracy | |
Denver, James William | |
De Russy, Gustavus Adolphus | |
De Trobriand, Philippe Régis Dénis De Keredern | |
Devens, Charles Jr | |
Devin, Thomas Casimer | |
Dewey, Joel Allen | |
Dix, John Adams | HU – citing Boyden Index of the Scottish Rite |
Dodge, Charles Cleveland | |
Dodge, Grenville Mellen | |
Doolittle, Charles Camp | |
Doubleday, Abner | |
Dow, Neal | |
Duffié, Alfred Napoleon Alexander “Nattie” | |
Dumont, Ebenezer | |
Duryeé, Abram | |
Duval, Isaac Hardin | |
Dwight, William | |
Dyer, Alexander Brydie | |
Eaton, Amos Beebe | |
Edwards, John | |
Edwards, Oliver | |
Egan, Thomas Wilberforce | |
Ellet, Alfred Washington | |
Elliot, Washington Lafayette | |
Emory, William Hemsley | |
Estey (Este), George Peabody | |
Eustis, Henry Lawrence | |
Ewing, Charles | |
Ewing, Hugh Boyle | |
Ewing, Thomas Jr | |
Fairchild, Lucius | Grand Master, Kansas |
Farnsworth, Elon John | |
Farnsworth, John Franklin | |
Ferrero, Edward | |
Ferry, Orris Sanford | |
Fessenden, Francis | |
Fessenden, James Deering | |
Fisk, Clinton Bowen | |
Force, Manning Ferguson | |
Forsyth, James William (James M. ?) | Union Lodge #121, Pennsylvania |
Foster, John Gray | |
Foster, Robert Sanford | |
Franklin, William Buel | |
Frémont, John Charles | |
French, William Henry | |
Fry, James Barnet | |
Fry, Speed Smith | |
Fuller, John Wallace | |
Gamble, William | |
Garfield, James Abram | Magnolia Lodge #20, Ohio |
Garrard, Kenner | |
Garrard, Theophilus Toulmin | |
Geary, John White | Philanthropy Lodge #255 Pennsylvania |
Getty, George Washington | |
Gibbon, John | |
Gibbs, Alfred | |
Gilbert, Charles Champion | |
Gilbert, James Isham | |
Gillem, Alvan Cullem | |
Gillmore, Quincy Adams | |
Gordon, George Henry | Bunker Hill Lodge #5, Massachusetts |
Gorman, Willis Arnold (William A. ?) | Federal Lodge #1, District of Columbia |
Graham, Charles Kinnaird | |
Graham, Lawrence Pike | |
Granger, Gordon | |
Granger, Robert Seaman | |
Grant, Lewis Addison | |
Grant, Ulysses Simpson (Hiram Ulysses) | |
Greene, George Sears | |
Gregg, David Mcmurtrie | |
Gresham, Walter Quintin | |
Grierson, Benjamin Henry | |
Griffin, Charles | |
Griffin, Simon Goodell | |
Grose, William | |
Grover, Cuvier | |
Hackleman, Pleasant Adam | |
Halleck, Henry Wager | |
Hamblin, Joseph Eldridge | Kane Lodge #454, New York |
Hamilton, Andrew Jackson | |
Hamilton, Charles Smith | |
Hamilton, Schuyler | |
Hamlin, Cyrus | |
Hammond, William Alexander | |
Hancock, Winfield Scott | Member of Charity Lodge #190, Norristown, Pennsylvania, Royal Arch Mason, #90, and Hutchison Commandery, Knights Templar #22 |
Hardie, James Allen | |
Hardin, Martin Davis | |
Harding, Abner Clark | |
Harker, Charles Garrison | |
Harland, Edward | |
Harney, William Selby | |
Harris, Thomas Maley | |
Harrow, William | |
Hartranft, John Frederick | Charity Lodge #190, Pennsylvania |
Hartsuff, George Lucas | |
Hascall, Milo Smith | |
Haskin, Joseph Abel | |
Hatch, Edward | |
Hatch, John Porter | |
Haupt, Herman | |
Hawkins, John Parker | |
Hawley, Joseph Roswell | |
Hayes, Joseph | |
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard | |
Haynie, Isham Nicholas | |
Hays, Alexander | |
Hays, William | |
Hazen, William Babcock | |
Heckman, Charles Adam | |
Heintzelman, Samuel Peter | |
Herron, Francis Jay | |
Hincks, Edward Winslow | |
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen | |
Hobson, Edward Henry | |
Holt, Joseph | |
Hooker, Joseph | |
Hovey, Alvin Peterson | |
Hovey, Charles Edward | |
Howard, Oliver Otis | |
Howe, Albion Parris | |
Howell, Joshua Blackwood | |
Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson | |
Hunt, Henry Jackson | |
Hunt, Lewis Cass | |
Hunter, David | |
Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus | Belvidere Lodge #60, Illinois |
Ingalls, Rufus | Williamette Lodge #2 Oregon |
Jackson, Conrad Feger | #45, Pennsylvania |
Jackson, James Streshly | Hopkinsville Lodge #37, Kentucky |
Jackson, Nathaniel James | |
Jackson, Richard Henry | |
Jameson, Charles Davis | |
Johnson, Andrew | Greeneville Lodge #199, Tennessee |
Johnson, Richard W | |
Jones, Patrick Henry | |
Judah, Henry Moses | North Star Lodge #91, California |
Kane, Thomas Leiper | |
Kautz, August Valentine | |
Kearny, Philip | |
Keim, William Hugh | |
Kelley, Benjamin Franklin | |
Kenly, John Reese | Maryland Commandery #1, Maryland |
Ketcham, John Henry | |
Ketchum, William Scott | |
Keyes, Erasmus Darwin | |
Kiernan, James Lawlor | |
Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson “Kill Cavalry” | |
Kimball, Nathan | Mt. Pleasant Lodge #168, Indiana |
King, John Haskell | |
King, Rufus | |
Kirby, Edmund | |
Kirk, Edward Needles | |
Knipe, Joseph Farmer | Perserverance Lodge #21, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
Kryzanowski, Wladimir | |
Lander, Frederick West | |
Lauman, Jacob Gartner | |
Lawler, Michael Kelly | |
Ledlie, James Hewett | |
Lee, Albert Lindley | |
Leggett, Mortimer Dormer | Amity Lodge #5, Ohio |
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson | |
Lockwood, Henry Hayes | |
Logan, John Alexander | Benton Lodge #64, Illinois |
Long, Eli | |
Lowell, Charles Russell | |
Lucas, Thomas John | |
Lyon, Nathaniel | |
Lytle, William Haynes | |
McArthur, John | |
McCall, George Archibald | |
McClellan, George Brinton | Willamette Lodge #2, Oregon |
McClernand, John Alexander | Central Lodge #71, Illinois |
McCook, Alexander Mcdowell | Lancaster Lodge #106, Illinois |
McCook, Daniel Jr | |
McCook, Edward Moody | |
McCook, Robert Latimer | |
McDowell, Irvin | |
McGinnis, George Francis | |
McIntosh, John Baillie | |
McKean, Thomas Jefferson | |
Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell | |
McKinstry, Justus | |
McLean, Nathaniel Collins | |
McMillan, James Winning | |
McNeil, John | |
McPherson, James Birdseye | |
Maltby, Jasper Adalmorn | |
Mansfield, Joseph King Fenno | |
Manson, Mahlon Dickerson | |
Marcy, Randolph Barnes | |
Marston, Gillman | |
Martindale, John Henry | |
Mason, John Sanford | |
Matthies, Charles (Karl) Leopold | |
Meade, George Gordon | |
Meagher, Thomas Francis | |
Meredith, Sullivan Amory (Solomon?) | Cambridge Lodge #105, Indianapolis, Indiana |
Merritt, Wesley | |
Miles, Nelson Appleton | Southern California Lodge #278, California |
Miller, John Franklin | |
Miller, Stephen | North Star Lodge #23, Minnesota |
Milroy, Robert Huston | |
Mitchel, Ormsby Macknight | |
Mitchell, John Grant | |
Mitchell, Robert Byington | |
Montgomery, William Reading | |
Morell, George Webb | |
Morgan, Charles Hale | |
Morgan, Edward Denison | |
Morgan, George Washington | |
Morgan, James Dada | |
Morris, William Hopkins | |
Morton, James St Clair | |
Mott, Gershom | |
Mower, Joseph Anthony | |
Nagle, James | |
Naglee, Henry Morris | |
Negley, James Scott | #45, Pennsylvania |
Neill, Thomas Hewson | |
Nelson, William “Bull” | |
Newton, John | |
Nickerson, Franklin Stillman | |
Oglesby, Richard James “Uncle Dick” | |
Oliver, John Morrison | |
Opdyke, (Samuel) Emerson | |
Ord, Edward Otho Cresap | |
Orme, William Ward | |
Osborn, Thomas Ogden | |
Osterhaus, Peter Joseph | |
Owen, Joshua Thomas “Paddy” | William B. Schnider Lodge #419, Pennsylvania (Past Master) |
Paine, Charles Jackson | |
Paine, Eleazar Arthur | Monmouth Lodge #37, Illinois |
Paine, Halbert Eleazer | |
Palmer, Innis Newton | |
Palmer, John McCauley | Mt. Nebo Lodge #76, Illinois |
Parke, John Grubb | |
Parsons, Lewis Baldwin | |
Patrick, Marsena Rudolph | |
Patterson, Francis Engle | |
Paul, Gabriel René | |
Peck, John James | |
Pennypacker, Galusha | |
Penrose, William Henry | |
Phelps, John Smith | United Lodge #5, Missouri |
Phelps, John Wolcott | |
Piatt, Abram Sanders | |
Pierce, Byron Root | |
Pile, William Anderson | |
Pitcher, Thomas Gamble | |
Pleasonton, Alfred | Franklin Lodge #134, Pennsylvania |
Plummer, Joseph Bennett | |
Poe, Orlando Metcalfe | |
Pope, John | |
Porter, Andrew | |
Porter, Fitz John | |
Potter, Edward Elmer | |
Potter, Joseph Haydn | |
Potter, Robert Brown | |
Potts, Benjamin Franklin | |
Powell, William Henry | |
Pratt, Calvin Edward | |
Prentiss, Benjamin Mayberry | |
Prince, Henry | |
Quinby, Isaac Ferdinand | |
Ramsay, George Douglas | |
Ransom, Thomas Edward Greenfield | St. John’s Lodge #13, Illinois |
Raum, Green Berry | |
Rawlins, John Aaron | Miners Lodge #273, Illinois |
Reid, Hugh Thompson | |
Reilly, James William | |
Reno, Jesse Lee | |
Revere, Joseph Warren | St. John’s Lodge, Massachusetts |
Reynolds, John Fulton | |
Reynolds, Joseph Jones | |
Rice, Americus Vespucius | |
Rice, Elliott Warren | |
Rice, James Clay | |
Rice, Samuel Allen | |
Richardson, Israel Bush “Fighting Dick” | |
Ricketts, James Brewerton | |
Ripley, James Wolfe | |
Roberts, Benjamin Stone | |
Robinson, James Sidney | |
Robinson, John Cleveland | Binghampton Lodge #177, Binghampton, New York – 1st Worshipful Master of Rocky Mountain Lodge #205, Camp Floyd Utak – Knight Templar at Monroe Commandery #12 Rochester New York on Feb. 4, 1851 |
Rodman, Isaac Peace | |
Rosecrans, William Starke “Old Rosy” | |
Ross, Leonard Fulton | Lewistown Lodge #104, Illinois |
Rousseau, Lovell Harrison | HU – 10,000 |
Rowley, Thomas Algeo | Lodge #45 |
Rucker, Daniel Henry | |
Ruger, Thomas Howard | |
Russell, David Allen | |
Salomon, Friedrich (Frederick) | |
Sanborn, John Benjamin | |
Sanders, William Price | |
Saxton, Rufus | St. John’s Lodge #11, District of Columbia |
Scammon, Eliakim Parker | |
Schenk, Robert Cumming | |
Schimmelfennig, Alexander | |
Schoepf, Albin Francisco | |
Schofield, John Mcallister | |
Schurz, Carl | Member of Herman Lodge #125 in Philadelphia |
Scott, Robert Kingston | |
Scott, Winfield “Old Fuss and Feathers” | Dinwiddie Union Lodge #23, Virginia |
Sedgwick, John | |
Seward, William Henry Jr | |
Seymour, Truman | |
Shackelford, James Murrell | |
Shaler, Alexander | |
Shepard, Isaac Fitzgerald | |
Shepley, George Foster | |
Sheridan, Philip Henry | |
Sherman, Francis Trowbridge | |
Sherman, Thomas West | |
Sherman, William Tecumseh “Cump” | |
Shields, James | Faribault Lodge #9, Minnesota |
Sibley, Henry Hastings | |
Sickles, Daniel Edgar | |
Sigel, Franz | |
Sill, Joshua Woodrow | |
Slack, James Richard | |
Slemmer, Adam Jacoby | |
Slocum, Henry Warner | |
Slough, John Potts | |
Smith, Andrew Jackson | |
Smith, Charles Ferguson (Charles E. ?) | Rising Sun Lodge #126, Pennsylvania |
Smith, Giles Alexander | |
Smith, Green Clay | Richmond Lodge #25, Kentucky |
Smith, Gustavus Adolphus (Gustavus W. ?) | Keystone Lodge #235, New York |
Smith, John Eugene | Miners Lodge #273, Illinois |
Smith, Morgan Lewis | |
Smith, Thomas Church Haskell | |
Smith, Thomas Kilby | |
Smith, William Farrar “Baldy” | |
Smith, William Sooy | |
Smyth, Thomas Alfred | Washington Lodge #1, Delaware |
Spears, James Gallant | |
Spinola, Francis Barretto | |
Sprague, John Wilson | |
Stahel, Julius | |
Stanley, David Sloane | |
Stannard, George Jerrison | Franklin Lodge #4, Vermont |
Starkweather, John Converse | |
Steedman, James Blair | Northern Light Lodge #40, Ohio |
Steele, Frederick | |
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls | |
Stevenson, John Dunlap | |
Stevenson, Thomas Greely | |
Stokes, James Hughes | |
Stolbrand (Stohlbrand), Charles John Meuller | |
Stone, Charles Pomeroy | |
Stoneman, George | Benicia Lodge #5, California |
Stoughton, Edwin Henry | |
Strong, George Crockett | |
Strong, William Kerley | |
Stuart, David | |
Stumbaugh, Frederick Shearer | |
Sturgis, Samuel Davis | |
Sullivan, Jeremiah Cutler | |
Sully, Alfred | |
Sumner, Edwin Vose | |
Swayne, Wager | |
Sweeny, Thomas William | |
Sykes, George “Tardy George” | |
Taylor, George William | |
Taylor, Joseph Pannell | |
Taylor, Nelson | |
Terrill, William Rufus | |
Terry, Alfred Howe | |
Terry, Henry Dwight | |
Thayer, John Milton | Capitol Lodge #101, Iowa |
Thomas, George Henry “Pap” | HU – 10,000 & Boyden Index of Scottish Rite |
Thomas, Henry Goddard | |
Thomas, Lorenzo | Potomac Lodge #5, District of Columbia |
Thomas, Stephen | |
Thruston, Charles Mynn | |
Tibbits, William Badger | |
Tillson, Davis | |
Todd, John Blair Smith | |
Torbert, Alfred Thomas Archimedes | Temple Chapter #2, Delaware |
Totten, Joseph Gilbert | |
Tower, Zealous Bates | |
Turchin, John Basil (Ivan Vasilovitch Turchininoff) | |
Turner, John Wesley | |
Tuttle, James Madison | |
Tyler, Daniel | |
Tyler, Erastus Bernard | |
Tyler, Robert Ogden | |
Tyndale, (George) Hector | |
Ullmann, Daniel | |
Underwood, Adin Ballou | Montgomery Lodge, Massachusetts |
Upton, Emory | |
Van Alen, James Henry | |
Van Cleve, Horatio Phillips | |
Van Derveer, Ferdinand | |
Vandever, William | Dubuque Lodge #3, Iowa |
Van Vliet, Stewart | |
Van Wyck, Charles Henry | |
Veatch, James Clifford | Rockport Lodge #112, Indiana |
Viele, Egbert Ludovicus | Kane Lodge #454, New York |
Vincent, Strong | |
Vinton, Francis Laurens | |
Vodges, Israel | |
Von Steinwehr, Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich | |
Wade, Melancthon Smith | |
Wadsworth, James Samuel | |
Wagner, George Day | |
Walcutt, Charles Carroll | |
Wallace, Lewis “Lew” | Fountain Lodge #60, Indiana |
Wallace, William Henry (Harvey?) Lamb | Occidental Lodge #50, Illinois (Past Master) |
Ward, John Henry Hobart | Became a Mason in Metropolitan Lodge #273, New York City, 1855. Royal Arch Mason, Commandery, Shriner, Active 33rd degree in the AASR, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction |
Ward, William Thomas | |
Warner, James Meech | |
Warren, Fitz-henry | |
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble | |
Washburn, Cadwallader Colden | |
Watkins, Louis Douglass | |
Webb, Alexander Stewart | |
Weber, Max (Aka von Weber) | Trinity Lodge #12, New York |
Webster, Joseph Dana | |
Weed, Stephen Hinsdale | |
Weitzel, Godfrey | HU – 10,000 & Boyden Scottish Rite |
Wells, William | |
Welsh, Thomas | |
Wessells, Henry Walton | |
West, Joseph Rodman | |
Wheaton, Frank | |
Whipple, Amiel Weeks | |
Whipple, William Denison | |
Whitaker, Walter Chiles | |
White, Julius | Oriental Lodge #33, Illinois |
Wild, Edward Augustus | |
Willcox, Orlando Bolivar | |
Williams, Alpheus Starkey | |
Williams, David Henry | |
Williams, Nelson Grosvenor | |
Williams, Seth | |
Williams, Thomas | |
Williamson, James Alexander | |
Willich, August (Aka von Willich) | |
Wilson, James Harrison | |
Wistar, Isaac Jones | Franklin Lodge #134, Pennsylvania |
Wood, Thomas John | |
Woodbury, Daniel Phineas | |
Woods, Charles Robert | |
Woods, William Burnham | Newark Lodge #69, Ohio |
Wool, John Ellis | |
Wright, George | |
Wright, Horatio Gouverneur | |
Zook, Samuel Kosciusko |