Hi George, I did a collections search on AHEC's website for that info you replied with and could not find anything on the 44th. I was specifically looking for those two privates' personal letters you cited. Search results came up empty. Happen to have any direct links I can follow?

I'm trying to find out more on the 44th's Major Luther M. Sabin and his actions at Kennesaw Mtn in Atlanta June 27, 1864 when he accepted the cease fire truce at the Dead Angle on Cheatham's Hill offered by Lt. Col. Wm H. Martin of the CSA. I'm trying to find out if Sabin was a Freemason or not. Information I have suggests that ceasefire was a direct result of wounded Union soldiers dying in the brush fire and giving the sign of a Mason in distress to their enemy of the Confederates. Freemasons in Cleburne's units received that sign and telling Martin this, who was a Freemason himself - thus being obliged to call the ceasefire to save his "enemy" Brothers from the butchery. I'm trying to prove this but have come across no direct corraborating recorded evidence of Masonry playing a role. Thought maybe those Private's papers would shed light.

Thank you,

Michael Karpovage
Author, Crown of Serpents