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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 8: from Hatteras to New Orleans. (search)
tates flag in token thereof on the United States public buildings. This the mayor declined to do, making the excuse that he was not a military officer. Farragut then sent Captain Bailey and Lieutenant Perkins ashore with a party of marines and hoisted the United States flag over the United States mint, but did not leave it guarded except that he had howitzers in the main-top of the Hartford which bore upon it. On the day before I got up to New Orleans a party of ruffians, headed by one Mumford, pulled down Farragut's flag, trailed it on the ground through the streets, tore it in pieces and distributed the pieces among the mob for keepsakes, their leader wearing a piece of it in the buttonhole of his coat as a boutonniere. As we neared the city the next day the morning papers were brought to me on board the Wissahickon containing a description of this performance with high encomiums upon the bravery and gallantry of the man who did it. After having read the article, I handed th
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 9: taking command of a Southern City. (search)
re as to the means; go out and try your hand at it. And so the mayor made them a speech from the balcony, but they jeered him to his face. Then another spoke, and they chaffed him, calling him all sorts of abusive names, and the speech-making rather increased the uproar. I stood, a little withdrawn from the window, looking across the street, and I saw a man on the sidewalk having a piece of a United States flag in his button-hole. I inquired who he was and was answered that that was Mumford who had torn down the flag, and that it was a piece of it he wore in his button-hole. I told my orderly, who was standing near me, to take a look at the man so that he would know him if he saw him again. Then the mob raised the cry: Where's old Butler? Let him show himself; let him come out here if he dare. The cry was echoed around for a moment: Where's old Butler? I thought it my privilege to answer that call. I stepped forward on the balcony in full sight, with my cap in my han
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. (search)
Chapter 10: the woman order, Mumford's execution, etc. Conduct of women of New Orleans was done on the 4th day of June. Meanwhile Mumford, who had torn down the flag, had been put on more attention that night to the question of Mumford's execution than I did to sleep, but I came ton of the next day I got a note saying that Mrs. Mumford and her children wished me to see them. I I was not disturbed until I called for him. Mrs. Mumford in a proper way began to intercede for her The place was almost in sight of my office. Mumford was permitted to stand upon the scaffold and last of it they got quite uneasy, the eyes of Mumford being lifted up the street to see if some staand Dixon's line, including Jefferson Davis. Mumford's wife and family were declared to be the sacer terms that she was somehow interested in Mrs. Mumford, who was then in the greatest distress. Mro influence. The list showed nobody behind Mrs. Mumford, and, the commissioner having been changed,[16 more...]
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
s 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 Statehat 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 received evidence fully establishing the truth of the fact that the said William B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederacy, was actually and publicly executed in coldthe city of New Orleans by the forces under Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offence even alleged to be a felon deserving of capital punishment, for the deliberate murder of Wm. B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederate States, at New Orleans; and having ordered the adder in their venom. The first recital of the proclamation, namely, that Mumford was executed for a crime committed before the city was captured, was simply a
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
suing woman order, 420-421; by various persons for hanging Mumford, 443; for course at New Orleans, 538, 561, 567-568. Att34; his enmity toward Butler due to Seward, 537; action in Mumford matter, 542; Sumner writes regarding, 552; accusations aga conduct of, 205-207. key, Postmaster-General, gives Mrs. Mumford a clerkship, 446. Kilpatrick, General, starts on raipondence with Lovell, abandoning Louisiana, 477; action in Mumford matter, 542; puts colored prisoners in trenches under firetary of treasury, 391. Mercer, Dr., William, pleads for Mumford's life, 442-443. Methodist Church divided by slavery quhange of prisoners, 586, 588, 589, 597, 606, 608, 609. Mumford pulls down flag at New Orleans, 370, 376; arrest, trial, a368; carries Butler to New Orleans, 370; remark concerning Mumford, 371, allows gunboat McRae to become cartel, 390. Smith. T Tabb, Col., Thos., aids Butler in befriending Mrs. Mumford, 444. Taliaferro's Cavalry, reference to, 679. Ta