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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
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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. Dover,
White City, assistant domicil
iary officer-registrar; Robert
N Latzy, Ft. Klamath. U. S.
forest service; and Robert F.
Kyle, Mcdford, manager First
Federal Savings and Loan as
sociation. Secretary SU:v:art Uriall in
praise of Morse's cor.-vn a
tion record. gvc variety to
the testimonials.
But the sponsorship ot the
nation's top labor leaders ave
body and strength of numbc
to the occasion, for Wayre
Morse is one of their special
friends.
X HARRY E.
Republican Candidate for
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