11/8/2022 0 Comments The black flag![]() ![]() BUTLER, when said MUMFORD was an unresisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offence even alleged to have been committed by him subsequent to the date of the capture of said city Īnd whereas, the silence of the Government of the United States, and its maintaining of said BUTLER in high office under its authority for many months after his commission of an act that can be viewed in no other light than as a deliberate murder, as well as of numerous other outrages and atrocities hereafter to be mentioned, afford evidence too conclusive that the said Government sanctions the conduct of the said BUTLER, and is determined that he shall remain unpunished for these crimes MUMFORD, a citizen of the Confederacy, was actually and publicly executed in cold blood by hanging, after the occupation of the City of New-Orleans by the forces under Gen. LUDLOW apprized the said ROBERT OULD that the above recited communication of the 19th of November had been received and forwarded to the Secretary of War of the United States, and whereas this last delay of fifteen days allowed for answer has elapsed and no answer has been received Īnd whereas, in addition to the tacit admission resulting from the above refusal to answer, I have received evidence fully establishing the truth of the fact that the said WILLIAM B. ![]() ![]() HALLECK, of 7th of August last, had not yet been received, and that if no answer was sent to the Government within fifteen days from the delivery of this last communication, it would be considered that an answer is declined:Īnd whereas, a letter dated on the 3d day of the present month of December, the said Lieut.-Col. LUDLOW, agent of the United States under said cartel, informing him that the explanation promised in the said letter of Gen. LEE should be duly informed thereof Īnd whereas, on the 28th of November last, (1862,) another letter was addressed, under my instructions, by ROBERT OULD, Confederate agent for the exchange of prisoners, under the cartel between the two Governments, to Lieut.-Col. HALLECK, the said General-in-Chief of the armies of the United States, alleging sufficient causes for failure to make early reply to said letter of the 6th July, asserting that "No authentic information had been received in relation to the execution of MUMFORD, but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution," and promising that Gen. HALLECK, renewing the inquiries in relation to the execution of the said MUMFORD, with the information that in the event of not receiving a reply within fifteen days, it would be assumed that the fact was true, and was sanctioned by the Government of the United States Īnd whereas, an answer, dated on the 7th of August last, 1862, was addressed to Gen. MUMFORD, a citizen of the Confederate States, had been executed by the United States authorities at New-Orleans, for having pulled down the United States flag in that city before its occupation by the United States forces, and calling for a statement of the facts, with a view of retaliation if such an outrage had really been committed under the sanction of the authorities of the United States Īnd whereas, (no answer having been received to said letter,) another letter was, on the 2d of August last, (1862,) addressed by Gen. ![]() HALLECK, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army, informing the latter that a report had reached this Government that WM. LEE, acting under the instructions of the Secretary of War of the Confederate States of America, to Gen. Whereas, a communication was addressed on the 6th day of July last, 1862, by Gen. ![]()
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