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ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) - For a brief time during the Civil War, hostilities at St. Francisville stilled while Masons from the Union Navy and Confederate Army buried a 38-year-old Union gunboat commander.
This weekend, Masons and history buffs plan a 3-day commemoration for the 150th anniversary of the June 1863 truce called to bury Lt. Cmdr. John Hart of the USS Albatross. There will be a parade, a funeral re-enactment and talks about Civil War medicine and funerals - and about Hart and Confederate Capt. W.W. Leake, a Mason who approved the truce and maintained Hart's grave into the 20th century.
Hart's gunboat was on the Mississippi River as part of the Union campaign to cut the Confederacy in two by taking Vicksburg, Miss., and Port Hudson, La.
He shot himself June 11, 1863.
This weekend, Masons and history buffs plan a 3-day commemoration for the 150th anniversary of the June 1863 truce called to bury Lt. Cmdr. John Hart of the USS Albatross. There will be a parade, a funeral re-enactment and talks about Civil War medicine and funerals - and about Hart and Confederate Capt. W.W. Leake, a Mason who approved the truce and maintained Hart's grave into the 20th century.
Hart's gunboat was on the Mississippi River as part of the Union campaign to cut the Confederacy in two by taking Vicksburg, Miss., and Port Hudson, La.
He shot himself June 11, 1863.