This is from a Canadian newspaper, and I thought it might be of interest to someone. In checking the Net I see that it was also printed in the "Masonic Voice Review" (Vol. 28).

Masonic Incident.
On the day after the battle of Antietam,
the fifth New Hampshire formed the
picket line along the edge of the corn, and
the pickets about the middle way of the field,
concealed in the corn, and the sharp-
shooters of the enemy fired on all who
undertook to walk round the battlefield or
in the locality. Early in the morning
one of the wounded rebels, who lay just
outside the pickets, called one of the New
Hampshire men and handed him a little
clip of paper, on which he had evidently
with great difficulty succeeded in making
some mystic signs in a circle, with a bit
of stick wet with blood. He begged the
soldier to hand the paper to some Free
Mason as soon as possible, and the soldier
took it to Col. E. E. Cross, of his regi-
ment. The colonel was a Master Mason,
but could not read the mystic token; it
belonged to a higher degree. He there-
fore sent for Capt. J. B. Perry, who was
also a Mason, and showed it to him. Capt.
Perry at once said there was a brother
Mason in great peril, and must be rescued.
Col. Cross instantly sent for several
brother Masons in the regiment, told the
story, and in a few moments four "bro-
thers of the mystic tie" were crawling
stealthily through the corn to the brother
in distress. He was found, placed on a
blanket, and at great risk drawn out of
the range of fire, and then carried to the
New Hampshire hospital. He proved to
be Lieut. Edom, of the Alabama Volun-
teers, and was badly wounded in the
thigh and breast. A few hours and he
would have perished. Lieut. Edom in-
formed his brethren that another wound-
ed Mason was laying a short distance
from where he himself was found. When
this other brother was also rescued, he
proved to be a Lieut.-Colo. of a Georgia
regiment. These two wounded rebel
officers received the same attention as the
wounded officers of the Fifth, and a warm
friendship was established between men
who, a few hours before, were engaged in
mortal combat. This is one of the thou-
sand instances in which the Masonic bond
has proved a blessing to mankind.

--The Brant Expositor; June 5, 1863