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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ARRIVAL OF THE FLAG-SHIP HARTFORD AND THE FLEET OPPOSITE THE LEVEE unnecessarily shedding blood, I sent the ma-rine guard back to the ship, retaining onlyone non-commissioned officer, with a musket,on the bayonet of which I tied my handker-chief, and with Midshipman Read and this mantook up the march for the City Hall. We werecursed and jostled by the mob which filled thestreets, but no actual violence was offered us.We found the mayor in the City Hall with his council. The Hon. Pierre Soule was alsothere, having doubtless been called in as anadviser. The mayor declined to surrender thecity formally, but said as we had the forcewe could take possession. I found the mayorpolite and courteous in his manner, and dis-tinctly remember how he invited me into hisprivate office to wash my hands, I having beenjostled by the mob in crossing the levee and
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THE UNITED STATES MINT, NEW ORLEANS. William B. Mumford, who hauled Jwn the flag which by Far-raguts order had been raised over the Mint, ii ted of treason, and by General I r was hanged on the 7th ■,f June from a gallows place! under the flag-staff of the Mint. Mumford, who was a North Carolinian, though long aresident of New Orleans, addressed a vast crowd from the gal-lows. He spoke with perfect self-possession, and said that hisoffense had been committed under excitement.— Editor. INCIDENTS OF THE OCCUPATION OF NEW ORLEANS. pushed bodily into a ditch of muddy water,blackening my hands and covering my uni-form with pieces of burned cotton, thus givingme anything but a dress-parade appearance.I soon, with the assistance of the mayor,managed to brush up enough to pass muster,and had a pleasant chat with the differentgentlemen in the council chamber, the topicbeing the passage of the forts. 457 with Farragutsinstructions. It had onl) bei n floating to the breeze a short time when

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