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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
flag upon one of the public buildings. But these marines had scarcely retired when the flag, hauled down by a man named Munford, was dragged through the streets and trampled under foot. On the 1st of May the Federal transports reached the wharvescourage to erect for one particular occasion the political scaffold, that fatal aliment of civil discords. The death of Munford is the only stain on the brightest page, perhaps, in the history of the United States--the one on which it is written thof the Union, has any other political crime, to use the technical expression, been expiated by the blood of the guilty. Munford was the same man who, on the 27th of April, hauled down the Federal flag hoisted by some sailors of the Pensacola over tmight have drawn the whole fire of the Federal squadron upon an innocent city; and if one of Farragut's sailors had seen Munford drag the national flag through the mud, he would have done right to shoot him on the spot. It was, however, an act of h