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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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dent 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 Mum-ford hauled it down. It was seized by the mob,which paraded it through the streets with tileand drum, until they reached the City Hall,where it was destroyed, as above described. 1afterwards happened to be present when Far-ragut reported the hauling down of this flag toGeneral Butler, and I heard the latter say, I
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f^^ __ SCENE AT THE CITY HALL—HAlLING DOWN THE STATE FLAG. The local papers spoke of the State flag on the City Hallat the time, as the Lone Star flag. General Beauregard, in aletter to Admiral Preble, in 1872, says this flag was adopted in1861 by the State Convention of Louisiana. It had thirteen stripes, four blue, six white, and three red, commencing at thetop, with the colors as written. The Union was red. with itssides equal to the width of seven stripes. In its center was asingle pale-yellow five-pointed star.— A. K.. While we were in the City Hall, a mob cameup from the lower part of the city with anAmerican ensign, and when they saw us theytore the flag to shreds, and threw them intothe open window at us. I did not comprehendthe meaning of this singular and wild demon-stration at the time, but afterwards learnedthat on the morning of this same day Far-ragut had instructed Captain H. W. Morrisof the Pensacola, then at anchor abreast ofthe United States Mint, to hoist a flag

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