I am Master at Henrico Union Lodge No. 130 in Sandston, VA. Chartered in 1855.

In John J Fox III's book "The Confederate Alamo" he writes......." The 16th Mississippi's private Martin G Turner saw the ground inside covered with bodies, both blue and grey. He sensed the hopelessness of further defiance. In a desperate move, "he gave the Masonic sign of distress to a Federal colonel, who grasped him by the hand and drew him from the crowd and protected him from massacre."

This account is backed up in Confederate Veteran Magazine, vol XXIX, from 1921.

Turner was one of only a handful of Confederates to survive the massacre at Fort Gregg. This book is a "must read."

Keith