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6 l; in 5 8 B MONDAY. APRIL 30. 19E2 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THIS WASTES J CIVIL WAR New Orleans Harasses Federals By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent The Union commander who took over New Orleans after its capture - Ma. Gen. Ben jamin Franklin Butler - in herited a man-sized, lull time Job wth trouble at every turn, some rcadymade, some of his own making. New Orleans, captured in April 1862 by Flag Officer David Glasgow Farragut whose fleet had run the forts end batteries on the Missis sippi Rive: below the city, was far from conquered when Butler and his 18,000 blue coals took over. In fact, the cosmopolitan Crescent City, largest and richest in the Confederacy, never was con quered - it did not even sur render. Butler was a criminal lawyer and Democratic pol itician of Lowell, Mass. . c was 44 at the time he be can.e administrator of the city with a background of poli tics which included an effort to nominate Jefferson Davis tor the presidency and the backing of John C. Brecken ridge, the pro-slavery Demo crat who had run against Abraham Lincoln and Steph en A. Douglas In the election of 1860. He had attained suf ficient political stature in 1861 to cause Lincoln to com mission him as a major gen eral although he had no mil itary experience. After a variegated career during the Civil War he would become a congressman from Massachusetts, a gover nor of that state and would make a try for the presidency. Surrender Try Fails Before Butler arrived in New Orleans Farragut had at tempted without success to force the city to surrender. The Confederate army had abandoned the city and the mayor, John T. Monroe, re fused to surrender. "You have the force, take possession, "' he told Farragut, in effect. Farragut's fleet lay along the New Orleans waterfront its guns trained on the city. Farragut had hoisted a Federal flag over the U.S. Mint. A mob promptly tore it down, William B. Mumford, head of a gambling ring, mak ing the actual removal. The mob shredded the flag and flung some of the pieces into a window of the City Hall where Farragut's officers were negotiating wun me mayor. One piece Mumford wore as a boutonmcre. Next Farragut determined to fly the Stars and Stripes above the Custom House, which with the Mint, had been seized by the Confederates at the start of the war. Capt. H. H. Bell and Lt. Albert Kaulz wrom th. fleet were delegated to do the job. With a detachment of sail ors, two howitzers arid a bat talion of marines. Bell and Kautz from the fleet were Canal Street and marched to the Custom House on the morning of April 29. A mob awaited them. ". . . The marines were drawn up in line with load ed pieces, and flanked by the howitzers loaded with shrapnel," Kautz wrote. "The people made no dem onstration, but looked on in sullen silence. Received Cordially "Captain Bell and I, with a boastwain's mate carrying the ensign, entered the Cus tom House, where the post master received us cordially, remarking, "Thank God you are here. I have been a Un ion man all the time. I was appointed by Buchanan, not by Jeff Davis; he only al lowed me to remain. The postmaster showed us to the roof, where we found a flag staff with halards. The boat swain's mate bent on the flag and I reported all ready, when Captain Bell gave the order, 'Hoist .-way!' and the boat swain's mate and I put our hands to the halyards, and the 'Stars and Stripes rose into the sky and swelled on the breeze.' " Next Bell and Kautz went to City Hall to remove Loui siana state flag flying there. An immense crowd gathered, "silent but angry and threat ening," Marion A. Baker, the mayor's private secretary wrote. "Many people openly dis played their arms," Baker went one. "An open way was left in front of the hall, and their force being stationed, .Captain Bell and Liei'tenant Kautz passed across the street, mounted the hall steps and entered the mayor's par lor. "Approaching the mayor, Captain Bell said: 'I have come in obedience to haul down the state flag from thij building.' "Mr. Monroe replied, his voice trembling with restrain ed emotior, 'Very well. Sir, you can do it; but I wish to say that there is not in my entire constituency so wretch ed a renegade as would be willing to exchange places with you. Speech Emphasiied "He emphasized his speech in a manner which must have been very offensive to the of ficers. Captain Bell visibly re strained himself from reply an" asked at onrj that he might be shown the way to the roof. The mayor replied by referring him to the jan itor, whom he would find out side. 'As soon as the two offi cer, left the room, Mr. Mon roe also went out and placed himself immediately in front of the howitzer pointing down St. Charles street. There fold ing his arms, he fixed his eyes upon the gunner who stood lanyard in hand ready for action. Here he remained until the flag had been haul ed down and Lieutenant Kautz and Captain Bell reappeared." The crowd cheered the may or when the Federal officers marched their men away and delivered the flag to Farra gut. The state flag 13 stripes, 4 blue, 6 white and 3 red. The field was blue, seven stripes wide. In the center of the field was a pale yel low star. Julia LeGrand, a New Or leans girl of French descent whose father had lost his for tune, saw the City Hall scene i Capital Good Place For Morse To Get Campaign Money CURTAIN RAISER In early May, 1862, the armies of the North and the South fought the battle of Williamsburg as a sort of curtain raiser to the maneuvers which would come to be known as the Peninsular Campaign. Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and 100,000 Union troops had started up the Tidewater Peninsula, between the York and James rivers, in early April, and de spite a memorable "acting" performance by Confederate Maj. Gen. John Magruder, "took" Yorktown. His forces pursued the Confederates and caught up with them near Williamsburg, one-time capital of Virginia where Thomas Jefferson, George Washing ton and Patrick Henry served in the House of Burgesses. The South needed time to re group its forces, so they fought at Williams burg to delay the Union army. They suc ceeded, and the army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston had time to move out of danger to fight another day. This drawing, from the Library of Congress collection, depicts the battle of Williamsburg. (UPI) and wrote in her journal: "The ladies of the town signed a paper, praying it should never be given up. We went down to put our names on the list, and met the mar ines marching up to City Hall with their cannon in front of them. My blood boiled in my veins - I felt no fear - only anger. I forgot myself and called out several times: Gentlemen, don't let the state flag come down,' and Oh, how can you men stand it?' " Proclamation Ordered Butler moved hard and fast when he took over May 1. He ordered a newspaper to print a proclamation telling New Orleans residents what they could and could not do. The newspaper, the Tru; Del ta, refused. Butler ousted the printers and put his ov .1 sol diers to setting type. Then he ran into other wo men of Miss LeGrand's- tem per and issued his controver sial "woman order," General Order No. 28. It read: "As the officers and sol diers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from (he women (call ing themselves ladies), of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous noninter ference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that here after when any fern.'"- shall, by word, gesture or move ment, insult or show con tempt for any officer or sol dier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a wo man of the town plying her avocation." For that Butler got the name of "Beast." Confederate Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard, a native of New Orleans, re printed the order as a rally ing cry for his soldiers, add ing, "Men of the South shall ou mothers, our wives, our daughters and our sister, be thus outraged by the ruffian ly soldiers of the North, to whom is given the right to treat, at their pleasure, the ladies of the South as com mon harlots?. . ." Flair For Dramatic As for Mumford, the man who tore down the U.S. flag from the Mint, Butler hang ed him. With his flair for the dramatic, Butler staged the execution from a window of the Mint where the offense had occurred. A Southern historian, Ed ward A. Pollard, editor of the Richmond Examiner, re corded Mumford's last words as: "I consider that the man ner of my death will be l j disgrace to my wife and child; my country will honor them." School To Hold Annual Open House Central Point Jewett El ementary school will hold its annual open house on Thurs day, May 3. All classrooms will be open and samples of typical class work and activi ties will be displayed. Colored slides of the spring music programs will be shown. Prints of these slides may be purchased by parents. In the cafeteria, refreshments will be sold by the Parent-Teacher association. First and second grade art work will be exhibited. Open house hours will be 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. StntLb Bv A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington CorresDondent Washington (Special) If a member of Congress is a special friend of labor, the nations capi tal is a good place to pass the hat for his r e c 1 e c tion campaign, no matter how far away his con stituency may be. Sen.' Wayne Morse d emonstraterl this propostion last week when he added some $15,000 to his campaign kitty from a $50 per plate luncheon which was dominated by la bor officials. George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, sat at the head table next to Morse. Joseph D. Kccnan, one of Meany's subordinates, was master of ceremonies and chairman of the sponsoring committee. Jo seph A. Beirne, president of the Communications Workers Union, was vice chairman. John T. O'Brien, who heads the Machinists Union's polici cal committee, was the work horse who organized the fund raising campaign which drew 402 paying customers. This city is the best place in the country for such an affair, for in recent years it has seen a multitude of new marble structures rise up as the national headquarters of most of the nation's labor or ganizations. If Manhatten is the country's financial or big business home base, Washing ton serves the unions as op erational command post. Became Acquainted Morse became acquainted with labor officials here dur ing the early '40s when he served on the War Labor Board. During his subsequent 18 years in the Senate, he has been on the Senate Labor Committee about 15 years. O'Brien seemed sensitive to a reporter's inquiry about how many labor officials were involved. The program listed many, including Al Hartung of the Woodworkers, Walter Reuther of the Auto Workers, Peter Schbemann of the Plumbers, Al Hayes of the Machinists, George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, Jacob Potofsky of the Clothing Workers, David McDonald of the Steelworkers, David Du binsky of the Garment Work ers, James Carey of the Elec trical Workers, Joe Carran of the Maritime Union, Wil liam Doherty of the Postal Workers, M. A. Hutchcson of the Carpenters, C. J. Hagger ty of the Building Trades. Nevertheless. O'Brien can didly explained that in per suading his colleagues in the labor movement to buy tick ets for the Morse luncheon he reminded them of the sen ator's vigorous dissent from the efforts of a majority in Congress to penalize labor during the investigations of corruption in a number of un ions, notably the Teamsters. O'Brien said many of those who helped make this testi monial luncheon successful were active "Morse for Presi dent" supporters in the sena tor's abortive 1960 primary campaign here in the District of Columbia. Aided Effort The Teamsters aided that presidential effort, but none of their officials participated in the testimonial, according to the printed list of sponsors. Citizens from all walks of life teachers, lawyers, min isters, businessmen joined in making the Morse lunch eon successful. Many of them admire the senator's long ef forts in behalf of D. C. home rule and other local affairs administered by Congress, but neglected by most other senators. Their tributes, coup led with one from Interior Servicemen PROMOTED Four members of the 9417ti) Air Force Reserve squadron, Mcdford, have received pro motions, it was announced by W. G. Beard, squadron com mander. Officers receiving promo, tions to major are: Ota D. Binegar Jr., Mcdford. stale tax accountant: L. L. 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