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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
the United States army, informing the latter that a report had reached this Government that Wm. B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederate states, had been executed by the United States authorities at my instructions to Gen. Halleck, renewing the inquiry in relation to the said execution of said Mumford, with the information that in the event of not receiving a reply within fifteen days, it would uly, asserting that "no authentic information had been received in relation to one execution of Mumford, but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution," and pl to answer, I have received evidence fully establishing the truth of the fact that the said Wm. B. Mumford a citizen of this Confederacy, was actually and publicly executed in cold blood by hanging, f the city of New Orleans by the forces under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offence even alleged to have been comm
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
his associates comes up to the full measure of the public expectations. The deliberation with which the conclusions of the Executive have been arrived, at gives additional solemnity and dignity to his purpose. The Brule and his minions will discover that it does not follow because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, that it is forgotten or forgiven. Those of our own people, too, who have been disposed to complain of the President's alleged indifference to the fate of Mumford, will see that they have done him great injustice, and that he has remembered it longer perhaps than some of his censors. In this, as in other cases, it would be as well for those of us who inhabit the valleys of private life, and whose quantifications for conducting the government of the country have never yet been discovered by our fellow citizens, to be modest and charitable in our strictures upon the course of those whom we have placed in power, and who, from their official and intelle