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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 32: (search)
rests and Imprisonments measures attempted oath required of voters a convention to amend the state Constitution results attempt in Louisiana martial law barbarities inflicted invasion of plantations order of General Butler execution of Mumford judicial system set up civil affairs administered by military authority order of President Lincoln for a provisional Court a military Court sustained by the army necessity, the reason given for the power to create the Court this doctrine f and held liable to be treated as a woman about town plying her vocation. By command of Major-General Butler. This order was issued on May 15, 1862, and known as General Order No. 28. Another example was the cold-blooded execution of William B. Mumford on June 7th. He was an unresisting and noncombatant captive, and there was no offense ever alleged to have been committed by him subsequent to the date of the capture of the city. He was charged with aiding and abetting certain persons in
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 49: (search)
Pope's order letter of General Lee relative to barbarities answer of General Halleck case of Mumford effect of threatened retaliation mission of Vice-President Stephens excess of prisoners parng general at Washington, General Halleck, making inquiries as to the truth of the case of William B. Mumford, reported to have been murdered at New Orleans by Major General Benjamin F. Butler, and ofment for execution as a felon, at such time and place as may be ordered. In the case of William B. Mumford, a letter was received from General Halleck, dated August 7, 1862, stating sufficient causth; it asserted that no authentic information had been received in relation to the execution of Mumford, but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution, and prg after the occupation of New Orleans by the forces under General Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and noncombatant captive, and for no offenses even alleged to have been comm
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
rigate), 67, 85, 167, 169. Fight with the Virginia, 168. Monroe, John T. Extract from reply to Farragut, 194-95. Moody, Captain, 596-97. Moore, General, 339. Moran, Major, 596-97. Morgan, Gov. E. D., 89. Gen. John Hunt, 37, 324-25, 444, 472,473, 580. Morgan (gunboat), 173. Morris, Captain, 468. Capt. C. M., 219-20. Robert, 230. Mott, Col., Christopher, 82. Mouton, General, 349-50, 352, 455, 456. Mudd, Samuel A., 417. Mulford, General, 510. Mulhern, Terence, 201. Mumford, William B., 242, 499, 500. Munford, Colonel. Extract from address on fall of Ft. Donelson, 30. Address at Memphis, Tenn., 46. Murfreesboro, Tenn., Battle of, 325-26, 356. Murray, E. C., 189. Report on construction of the Mississippi, 190. N Nahant (ironclad), 172. Nashville, Tenn., 238. Retreat of Johnston's forces, 29-31. Evacuation, 31, 32. Battle of, 490. Nashville (steamer), 221-22, 237. Negroes. Admission to citizenship, 615-16. Nelson, General, 50, 57, 449. Judg
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mumford, William B. (search)
Mumford, William B. On April 26, 1862, he hauled down the American flag on the mint. General Butler ordered his arrest and trial for treason. He was convicted and hanged; the only man executed for treason during the Civil War.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treason. (search)
commander (Lovell) turned over the whole matter to the civil authorities. The demand was refused. Meanwhile a force had landed from one of the vessels and hoisted the National flag over the Mint. As soon as they retired a gambler, named William B. Mumford, with some young men, tore down the flag and dragged it through the streets in derision. This act was hailed with acclamations of approval by the Confederates of the city, and paragraphs of praise and exultation appeared in the New Orleans journals. General Butler arrived with 2,000 troops (May 1), and took possession of the city. His headquarters were at the St. Charles Hotel, before which a threatening crowd gathered. Among them was Mumford, who openly boasted of his exploit in humbling the old rag of the United States. He became so dangerous to good order as the leader of the turbulent spirits in New Orleans that Butler had him arrested and tried for treason. He was found guilty and executed—the only man who, up to 190
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
ent of the Confederate States......Feb. 19, 1862 Admiral Farragut passes forts Jackson and Philip with his fleet, morning......April 24, 1862 Surrender of New Orleans to Admiral Farragut......April 25, 1862 Capture of forts Jackson and Philip by the Federals......April 28, 1862 Confederate capital transferred to Opelousas......April, 1862 Maj.-Gen. Benjamin F. Butler takes possession of New Orleans......May 1, 1862 Baton Rouge occupied by Federals......May 27, 1862 William B. Mumford, for taking down the United States flag from the United States mint after the surrender of the city to Admiral Farragut, hanged at New Orleans by order of General Butler......June 7, 1862 Federal troops in Baton Rouge, besieged by Confederates, Aug. 5, evacuate by order from General Butler......Aug. 16, 1862 Brig.-Gen. Geo. F. Shepley military governor of Louisiana......Aug. 21, 1862 General Grover occupies Baton Rouge......Dec. 16, 1862 Maj.-Gen. N. P. Banks relieves Genera
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 15: (search)
ionists. his opinion of she-adders. Confiscation, fines, and plunder. Butler's decoy for assassins. the hanging of Mumford. his speech on the gallows. General experience in the Confederacy of the enemy's atrocity. New codes and methods of wnation, was at liberty to snatch. A shocking incident of Butler's despotism in New Orleans was the execution of William B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederate States, charged with the singular crime of having taken the Federal flag from the Unioined in a petition for mercy. Butler answered that some vicious men in New Orleans had sent him defiant letters about Mumford's fate; that an issue had been raised, that it was to be decided whether he was to govern in New Orleans or not --and he decided it by keeping the word he had first pronounced, and sending Mumford to the gallows. The condemned man was one of humble station in life, and was said to have been of dissipated habits. But he was faultlessly brave. On the gallows the s
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
relatives be proud of them.—Higgins' report, April 27, 1862. The troops engaged in the defense enlisted in the city, except the cannoneers. Capt. J. B. Anderson, of Company E, Louisiana artillery, although wounded early in the conflict, continued to render the most gallant service to the end. Of the same company, Lieutenant Baylor, of the 42-pounder barbette battery, and Lieutenant Agar deserve mention. Among those who acted coolly during the six days, were Lieutenants Ogden, Kennedy and Mumford, of the Louisiana artillery; Lieutenant Gaines, in command of the 32-pounder on the river front; Captain Jones, Company I, Twenty-third regiment Louisiana volunteers; Captain Peter, Company I, Twenty-second regiment volunteers; Lieut. Thomas K. Pierson, Twentythird regiment, who was killed while gallantly fighting his guns; Capt. M. T. Squires, senior officer at Fort St. Philip; and Lieut. Thomas B. Huger, of the McRae, who was seriously wounded. Speaking of the deserters, General Dunca
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
military rule under Butler execution of William B. Mumford Butler's Deepest depth. The echoes oigned Special Order No. 70, in the case of Wm. B. Mumford. The military commission in finding verdirender had not absolutely been accomplished. Mumford was still a citizen of a Confederate city, inblic edifices. On April 29th, two days after Mumford's act, Flag-officer Farragut addressed the foer Farragut. Before this date, not after it, Mumford had torn the flag down from a public buildinge the military commission had decided against Mumford, however, there is official testimony that hiur banner. If words convey purposes, William B. Mumford was by them prejudged. When they were whe Gulf, New Orleans, 5th June, 1862. William B. Mumford, a citizen of New Orleans, having been cto the authority of the United States. After Mumford's death, General Butler's usefulness in New Ohorror with which the conviction and death of Mumford surrounded him, to the mingled scorn and cont[1 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Beast Butler outlawed. (search)
ck, General-in-Chief of the United States Army, informing the latter that a report had reached this Government that William B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederate States, had been executed by the United States authorities at New Orleans, for havingly to said letter of 6th July, asserting that no authentic information had been received in relation to the execution of Mumford, but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution, and promising that General Lee lting from above refusal to answer, I have received evidence fully establishing the truth of the fact that the said William B. Mumford, a citizen of this Confederacy, was actually and publicly executed in cold blood by hanging, after the occupation of the city of New Orleans by the forces under the command of General Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offence even alleged to have been committed by him subsequent to the date of the capt
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