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reviously buried. The following brief sketch of the life of Mumford is mostly from his own lips. He was born of a very respectable family in Onslow county, N. C., on the 6th December, 1819. and was consequently at the time of his death in the 43d year of his age. When but three years of age, his father died, leaving him about $50,000. While yet a boy he went, to Florida, and remained there during the Florida war, returning to his home in 1832. In 1842 he left his home and went up the Red river, where he married an estimable lady, acquiring considerable property with her. In 1844 he came to this city, where he remained until 1846, when he went to Mexico as an Orderly Sergeant in the Third Louisiana regiment of Gen. Persifer F. Smith's brigade. Shortly after he arrived in Mexico he broke his leg, got sick, and was discharged from service. --Since then he has followed gambling as a profession, and was so noted for his proficiency at cards that planters would come to the city a
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): article 16
ida war, returning to his home in 1832. In 1842 he left his home and went up the Red river, where he married an estimable lady, acquiring considerable property with her. In 1844 he came to this city, where he remained until 1846, when he went to Mexico as an Orderly Sergeant in the Third Louisiana regiment of Gen. Persifer F. Smith's brigade. Shortly after he arrived in Mexico he broke his leg, got sick, and was discharged from service. --Since then he has followed gambling as a professionMexico he broke his leg, got sick, and was discharged from service. --Since then he has followed gambling as a profession, and was so noted for his proficiency at cards that planters would come to the city and furnish him, money to play with, giving him half of all he could win. He was wild as a boy, and in manhood squandered his own and his wife's fortunes, leaving his family at his death in dependent circumstances. He was uneducated, but not unintelligent, and I think his impulses were generally kindly. In person he was of middle height, about five feet seven, broad framed, but quite thin, dark complexion and
Onslow (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 16
y. At five o'clock in the afternoon of the day of the execution, the remains were taken from the Mint, and under an escort from the 12th Maine regiment and followed by their carriages, containing the bereaved family and a few friends, were borne to the Firemen's Cemetery and deposited in a tomb where three children of deceased had been previously buried. The following brief sketch of the life of Mumford is mostly from his own lips. He was born of a very respectable family in Onslow county, N. C., on the 6th December, 1819. and was consequently at the time of his death in the 43d year of his age. When but three years of age, his father died, leaving him about $50,000. While yet a boy he went, to Florida, and remained there during the Florida war, returning to his home in 1832. In 1842 he left his home and went up the Red river, where he married an estimable lady, acquiring considerable property with her. In 1844 he came to this city, where he remained until 1846, when he went
Persifer F. Smith (search for this): article 16
eath in the 43d year of his age. When but three years of age, his father died, leaving him about $50,000. While yet a boy he went, to Florida, and remained there during the Florida war, returning to his home in 1832. In 1842 he left his home and went up the Red river, where he married an estimable lady, acquiring considerable property with her. In 1844 he came to this city, where he remained until 1846, when he went to Mexico as an Orderly Sergeant in the Third Louisiana regiment of Gen. Persifer F. Smith's brigade. Shortly after he arrived in Mexico he broke his leg, got sick, and was discharged from service. --Since then he has followed gambling as a profession, and was so noted for his proficiency at cards that planters would come to the city and furnish him, money to play with, giving him half of all he could win. He was wild as a boy, and in manhood squandered his own and his wife's fortunes, leaving his family at his death in dependent circumstances. He was uneducated, but
Benjamin Franklin Butler (search for this): article 16
The execution of Mumford. The New York Herald, of Thursday, the 19th inst., contains the following detailed account of the willful murder of Wm. B. Mumford in New Orleans by Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler. It is furnished by the Herald's New Orleans correspondent, under date of June 7, as follows: We have no lack of excitement to-day. What with raising the Stars and Stripes on one public building, and hanging a man for hauling them down from another, besides the arrival of three steamers from New York and Philadelphia, viz: the Blackstone, the Roanoke, and the Suwance, we have had a pretty lively time of it. I sent yesterday by the Connecticut the order of Gen. Butler for the execution of Wm. B. Mumford, convicted of an overt act of treason, in pulling down the American flag from the Mint, after it had been raised there by Flag-Officer Farragut. The solemn tragedy provided for by that order was enacted this morning, and the soul of the rash and guilty man stands now
Shepley (search for this): article 16
ul. In speaking his voice was perfectly steady, and when the hood was drawn over his head I could not discover so much as a tremor of his hands. The fall, which was about four feet, dislocated his neck; but owing to a slight accident the knot was displaced and worked up under his chin, leaving the windpipe partly free. The result was that muscular contraction did not cease for ten minutes, though it was at no time violent.--The body hung for 30 minutes, when Dr. W. T. Black, surgeon of Gen. Shepley's staff, who, with Dr. Geo. A. Blake, of the United States Sanitary Commission, was in attendance on the execution, ascended a ladder and ascertained that the heart ceased to beat. The body was then allowed to hang nearly twenty minutes longer, when it was cut down and placed in a plain pine coffin. The crowd then dispersed quietly. At five o'clock in the afternoon of the day of the execution, the remains were taken from the Mint, and under an escort from the 12th Maine regiment an
William B. Mumford (search for this): article 16
order of Gen. Butler for the execution of Wm. B. Mumford, convicted of an overt act of treason, in him to reeking the intersession of for men. Mumford listened to him with respectful attention, bu the hope of administering some consolation. Mumford received him pleasantly and conversed freely,ight, and was quite free from nervousness. Mrs. Mumford is a delicate, respectable looking lady, anwould so soon be beyond the knowledge of man. Mumford preserved a respectful attention, and appearere the prison door, and, attended by a guard, Mumford was placed in it, accompanied by Chaplain Salies of the city held a meeting and voted that Mumford should not be hung. They certainly chose theice. A black silk mask was then put over Mumford's face, the noose adjusted to his neck, the h The following brief sketch of the life of Mumford is mostly from his own lips. He was born of ulged in some falsehood in giving a sketch of Mumford's life. Yet it appears that he met his death[4 more...]
Sergeant (search for this): article 16
ecember, 1819. and was consequently at the time of his death in the 43d year of his age. When but three years of age, his father died, leaving him about $50,000. While yet a boy he went, to Florida, and remained there during the Florida war, returning to his home in 1832. In 1842 he left his home and went up the Red river, where he married an estimable lady, acquiring considerable property with her. In 1844 he came to this city, where he remained until 1846, when he went to Mexico as an Orderly Sergeant in the Third Louisiana regiment of Gen. Persifer F. Smith's brigade. Shortly after he arrived in Mexico he broke his leg, got sick, and was discharged from service. --Since then he has followed gambling as a profession, and was so noted for his proficiency at cards that planters would come to the city and furnish him, money to play with, giving him half of all he could win. He was wild as a boy, and in manhood squandered his own and his wife's fortunes, leaving his family at his
Salter (search for this): article 16
He expressed great affection for his wife and children, for whom only he cared to live. In the evening his wife and children visited him, and afterwards Rev. Mr. Salter, Chaplain of the Thirteenth Connecticut regiment, called with the hope of administering some consolation. Mumford received him pleasantly and conversed freelsix or seven years of age. The interview was, of course, extremely affecting, and the prisoner, for the first and only time, broke down and groaned piteously, Chaplain Salter came in, and at the request of Mrs. Mumford engaged in an earnest prayer for the soul of him who would so soon be beyond the knowledge of man. Mumford preservssessed. At a little before ten o'clock, an army ambulance was before the prison door, and, attended by a guard, Mumford was placed in it, accompanied by Chaplain Salter. The procession was then formed, with Captain Magee's company of cavalry in advance, Capt. Stafford and his Deputy Provost Marshals following; then seven com
Farragut (search for this): article 16
ing the Stars and Stripes on one public building, and hanging a man for hauling them down from another, besides the arrival of three steamers from New York and Philadelphia, viz: the Blackstone, the Roanoke, and the Suwance, we have had a pretty lively time of it. I sent yesterday by the Connecticut the order of Gen. Butler for the execution of Wm. B. Mumford, convicted of an overt act of treason, in pulling down the American flag from the Mint, after it had been raised there by Flag-Officer Farragut. The solemn tragedy provided for by that order was enacted this morning, and the soul of the rash and guilty man stands now before its Maker.--I was with the doomed man frequently previous to his execution, and obtained from him some particulars of his life, which, as this is the first instance in the history of our country where a man has received the punishment of death for treason, will possess a strong interest for your readers. On Thursday night, Capt. Stafford, Assistant
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