Civil War Lodge of Research #1865 A.F. & A. M. Lodge News – August 6, 2019 1) Our next CWLR #1865 stated will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2019. (Please note the date difference from the normal 1st. Saturday in October.) The gavel will fall at 10:00am at Day Lodge #58, AF&AM, 100 E. Main St., Louisa, Virginia. After our normal business meeting we will move to the dining room where Worshipful Gregory Hasaflook will give a presentation on Civil War era carbines. That will be followed by lunch and then we will tour the Trevilian Station Battlefields. This will be conducted by Worshipful Ed Crebbs. Both of these brothers are CWLR members and also of the hosting Day Lodge Both are experts in Civil War history, particularly that which happened in the local area. The Lodge shares a building with the Louisa United Methodist Church. This is a wonderful history that started when the building was original constructed in the mid 1800’s. It is a beautiful building in its meeting/dining hall, its church sanctuary, and its Masonic Lodge room. The photo is of the Lodge Room looking East. Parking is available behind the building. Access is also available from the rear parking lot to the dining room and to the stairs to the Lodge room. PLEASE be aware that there are no elevators or chair lifts. Access to the 2nd floor is only by 4 flights of 7 stairs each with 3 landings. Donuts and coffee will be available at 9:00am in the dining hall. The Battle of Trevilian Station was fought for control of the Virginia Central Railroad and happened over two days in June 1864. Friday and Saturday dinner locations are to be determined. 2) There are no hotels in the immediate Louisa area. The closest might be in the town of Orange, but they are very expensive and none of the 3 establishments had many rooms for quantity booking due to weddings. I thought of who would be needing rooms and thought of those predominately coming from the East and of those using the 95 corridor. Fredericksburg seemed an ok location, and there is no other lodging between. Charlottesville might offer some possibilities. However that is further west and for many would require backtracking to get to the lodge. One hotel there did not return my inquiry. I looked at some hotels in the Short Pump area of Richmond. In some cases poor reviews turned me off. Others were already booked with very few rooms available, or rates and distances, the same as Fredericksburg. We have an arrangement for rooms with the Best Western at 2205 Plank St., Fredericksburg. This is right off of Rte 95, exit 130A. Rooms including tax are $102.40/room. The phone number is 540-371-5050. Reference the Civil War Lodge when reserving. Reservations must be made on or before Friday, September 13, 2019. Please note this hotel is approximately 1 hours’ drive to the Lodge in Louisa. Consider camping, a cabin, etc. The camping alternative: Small Country Campground offers a variety of furnished cabins and travel trailers. You would need to bring bed linens and towels. It is a very nice campground with the normal range of tent to full hookup sites. Their costs are attractive and you would be less than 8 miles from the Lodge. At this writing there were sites and cabins available. Contact them for particulars. www.smallcountry.com 540-967-2431 4400Byrd Mill Rd, Louisa, Va. 23093 3) The Civil War Lodge of Research #1865, as well as the other Virginia Research Lodges, is being very much encouraged to produce and make available for the Grand Lodge Library research papers on our topic of interest, Mason to Mason relations during the war. These papers are to have a specified quantity of pages and style for sharing and publishing. Attached are the guidelines. If you have a topic and you would like to create a paper and share with your brothers, please let me know. 4) We are looking to establish an E-Trestleboard. With the current style we are limited in what news and information we can provide in a snail mailed addition. For instance we have just enough space to inform of upcoming events and their necessary what, where, when and how. We do not very often have space to share the good things that happened at our events or to sing the praises of one of our members for receiving an honor or doing a good deed. With more space and E-Trestleboard would make those things possible as well as including photo and articles of information. It is certainly reasonable that many of our members have access to the web and could receive our CWLR Trestleboard and other notices on line. If you would like to be on our new e-mailing list, email your name and email address to our secretary: Rich Radi at cwlr1865@hotmail.com Please do not assume that he already has the information. Do It Now!! Please!! 5) For a few years our Treasurer has been advocating an increase in dues. He has stood by his reasoning; went over our income and expenses with past and present officers and just about anyone in hearing range. His perseverance has paid off. Enough members are in agreement that at this September 28 stated communication, the necessary steps will begin for the discussion and action and approval of By-Laws to reflect a proposed increase in CWLR annual dues to $30.00. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me. Fraternally, Richard Burkman Worshipful Master CWLR #1865 A.F.&A.M. E-mail: richardanddebi@verizon.net Home: 410-760-4809

Master’s Message
Brethren,
I’m looking forward to our 2026 meeting schedule including visits
to New Market Virginia, Monterey Pass Pennsylvania, and Fort
Monroe Virginia. Our first meeting will be Saturday April 11th at
New Market Virginia. Note: Download the Shenandoah Valley
Battlefields Mobile App on your phone it contains a lot of useful

Information you can use on this visit.
Friday’s night dinner will be at Southern Kitchen, 9579 Congress
Street (US 11), New Market, Virginia. Come in Earlier on Friday
and check out the Strayer House Visitor Center and Museum 9386
S Congress Street open Friday 7-4 pm or New Market Battlefield
Visitor Center 9500 George Collins parkway New Market Virginia
open Mon- Sat 10-4. Checking out these places on Friday will give
you more time at Virginia Museum of the Civil War, Bushong Farm
and Battlefield on Saturday open 9-5pm daily.

Saturday we will meet at Magnetic Lodge # 184, 100 Masonic
Drive, Stanley, Virginia and open our meeting. We will be holding
our meeting in an unusual way, before closing we will go from
labor to refreshment and go to lunch. After lunch we will travel 11
minutes north to Mount Jackson Lodge #103, 5938 Main Street,
Mount Jackson, Virginia and resume labor and close the Lodge.
Hopefully this will give us a chance to form new friendships with
2 Lodges and possibly gain some new members. Both Lodges I
hope will attend our meeting and join us in fellowship at lunch.

While in Mount Jackson you might want to check out Mt. Jackson
Visitor Center and Museum just up the street from the Lodge at
5901 main street. Nearby Union Church was a significant
Confederate Hospital with names of soldiers still visible on the
walls and a Confederate Cemetery nearby.

Traveling back to New Market be aware that New Market
Battlefield Visitor Center closes at 4pm and Virginia Museum of
the Civil war closes at 5pm. Saturday dinner will be on your own
schedule as we will only be coming together for fellowship on Friday night.
Two things to mention, First the movie” Field of Lost Shoes” can be watched
Prime or viewed at Virginia Museum Civil War every hour.

Secondly for Our Masonic Scouters New Market
battlefield will be hosting Camporee & Cub Day May 15-17, 2026
in conjunction with anniversary of the battle.
I hope we have a good turnout for our first meeting in 2026 and
remember we are a research lodge, any brother who has or is
working on a research paper we would love to have you make a
presentation at any of our upcoming meetings please let us know

Fraternally William C Hare Jr.
Worshipful Master