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 MessageBrethren,
Our second meeting of 2026 was enjoyed by all
who were in attendance, look over the minutesto hear
the summary of the day. The Canadian wildfire’s
smoke and heat of the day made a bad combination
for hiking to the summit due to air quality for most of
the members. The talk on South Moutain in the Civil
War and Monterey Pass Visitor Center were the
highlights of the day for myself and most of the
members present.
Meeting #3 will be at Monitor Lodge #197, 212
East Mellen Street, Hampton, Virginia 23663,
October 10th at 10 AM. Monitor Lodge was originally
founded in 1863 by Union Naval Officers stationed
at Fort Monroe, chartered by the Grand Lodge of
Maryland by request of foresaid Officers of Monitor
Lodge #113. This was due to Grand Lodge of
Virginia was inactive during the conflict. This fact
amazes me for several reasons; here we have a Union
fort in Virginia which stayed in the hands of the
Union thru out the conflict. Secondly, a masonic
lodge being formed by Maryland within Virginia’s
borders (Virginia comes into this picture December
13, 1865 when Grand Master of Masons in the
commonwealth presented Monitor Lodge #197 its
inaugural charters.) Virginia Senate Resolution
No.38 in 2016 tells the story of Monitor Lodge
(Please refer to page 3 of this trestleboard for the
text,)
Looking forward to greeting everyone at Monitor
Lodge, while you are at the meeting see if you can spot
something unusual with Monitor’s flags an let us
know during the meeting what you found.

Fraternally,
William C. Hare Jr.
Worshipful Master