User:Robyoung1775

 William Bruce Mumford and Mary Baumlin



 William B. Mumford born at Onslow, North Carolina Married Mary Baumlin (Von Baumlin)

 sometime around 1849. Mary Baumlin was born. Oct. 24, 1825 in Dorchester, Massachusetts

 daughter of Dr. Charles Frederick Von Baumlin born Oct. 24 1825 Baden, Germany and

 supposed to have been buried in Galveston, Texas after 1865. On Sept. 12, 1825 Dr. Baumlin Married

 Mary Ann Durant in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Mary Ann Durant was born Oct. 24, 1800

 in Boxford, Massachusetts.

 William Bruce Mumford was Hung  June 7, 1862 for Treason against the United States for removing the stars and

 stripes from the Mint building Apr. 26, 1862  before the surrender of New Orleans.

 The facts on this matter vary in the newspaper articles in this time period depending on which

 State it was written.

 Tearing Down the Stars and Stripes

 As told by James B. Cable

 1 “Standing at the corner of Carondelet and Gravier streets on the following Saturday if memory serves me rightly –I stepped aside to give free passage to two men who arm in arm, walked past me going out Gravier street. One of them a stout dark man, with the blackest of hair and beard, was enveloped in a flag of the then invader. Catching one of its torn folds in his grasp he shook it aloft as in angry protest he declared that flag never should wave over him. Someone spoke the man’s name and the couple passed on. I saw this man once again sitting on his coffin, his head bowed, his hands clasped between his knees. Before, behind, around him marched the soldiers of the Union as they bore him to his death. It was Mumford the man who tore the Nation’s flag from the United States Mint, and now wants to die on the spot of his late daring deed.”

 Raising of the United States Flag

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"> 2  “ On the appearance of Commodore Farragut before New Orleans, the local authorities were summoned by the Federal Commander to surrender the city. Gen. Lovell having previously withdrawn with his troops, the demand was responded to by the Mayor, who flatly refused. On this the Commodore sent a detachment of marines ashore, who, proceeding to the Mint, cut down the Confederate flag, and raised in its stead the flag of the United States. Mumford immediately ascended the roof and tore down the Federal flag. The occupation of the city by the Federal troops followed, and some days elapsed, when Gen. Butler, who was not in the city at the time of the occurrence, had Mumford arrested and cast into prison. His trial and execution took place some weeks afterwards.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"> Spartanburg, So. Ca., June 26 th, 1862

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"> The Execution of the Flag-desecrator

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"> Butler Arrives in New Orleans

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"> As told by Mary Mumford

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"> “ Butler, on arriving in the city of New Orleans, was of course accompanied by a guard and staff. On alighting and entering the hotel his guards followed him, save one, that remained on the carriage, with the driver. There was a dense crowd drawn together by feelings of the most intense excitement, disgust, contempt, and every bitter passion that the human heart is heir to. Soon their attention was called to the bluecoat on the carriage, and some cried out “cut his throat” others “shoot him.” The fellow was unarmed. There he sat, with this moving mass ready to demolish him. My husband came near just at this time, and his true Southern heart was moved, as it ever was at distress, even in an enemy. He appealed to the crowd and told them not to attack a defenseless man, but to follow those who had gone into the hotel. He immediately jumped impassively upon the carriage and told them he would protect the man. The crowd soon dispersed, when my husband conducted him to a place of safety and soon forgot about the matter. But not so with the blue coat. Three weeks after, while my husband was in prison, the same man entered the room, grasped him firmly by the hand, and said, “Mr. Mumford, you saved my life, I have come to thank you.” Nor was that all. When my husband was condemned to die this man this man wanted to plead with Butler for him, but did not dare to do it. His comrades told him he would be arrested if he went before Butler as an intercessor for my husband.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;">  M. Mumford

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"> Works Cited

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:9.2px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">1 <span style="font-size:15.3333px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">Confederate Days in New Orleans. The Quaint Old Virginian-the Removal of Specie-W. B. Mumford

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Date:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">Sunday, September 11, 1887

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Paper:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Volume:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">XVI

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Issue:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">171

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Section:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">Part 3

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Page:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">17

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">Genealogy Bank

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt;"><span style="font-size:9.2px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:super;white-space:pre-wrap;">2 <span style="font-size:15.3333px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;"> The Case Of Wm. B. Mumford

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Date:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">Tuesday, July 1, 1862

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Paper:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">Charleston Mercury (Charleston, SC)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.3800000000000001;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;">Page:  <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">1 <span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(51,51,51);white-space:pre-wrap;">