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To: WhiskeyPapa
I do not think a single rebel citizen was hanged by federal authorities for disloyal activities.

Speaking with forked tongue again, Walt? What about Beast Butler and the guy he hanged for taking down a US flag? William Mumford was his name.

432 posted on 05/16/2003 7:54:34 AM PDT by rustbucket
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To: rustbucket
I do not think a single rebel citizen was hanged by federal authorities for disloyal activities.

Speaking with forked tongue again, Walt? What about Beast Butler and the guy he hanged for taking down a US flag? William Mumford was his name.

I should have said civilian authorities. Butler's action was not cleared by Washington. If he had done that, Mumford probably would have been spared. Here's a letter of President Lincoln's:

Hon Secretary of War

Executive Mansion

Washington July 28, 1963

My Dear Sir,

A young son of the Senator Brown of Mississippi, not yet twenty, as I understand, was wounded, and made a prisoner at Gettysburg. His mother is sister of Mrs. P. R. Fendall, of this city. Mr. Fendall, on behalf of himself and family, asks that he and they may have charge of the boy, to cure him up, being responsible for his person and good behavior. Would it not be a grateful and graceful thing to let them have him?

Yours Truly,

A. Lincoln

You are putting up blue smoke and mirrors to hide southern atrocities that dwarfed anything ever done by the north.

Here are 40 names for you to note along with Mumford's. They are the loyal Texans hanged simply for being loyal to the old flag

Nathaniel, Clark, Wernell, Richard Martin, Grandpaw Burch, H.J. Esmond, Ward, Evans, Clem Woods, Wolsey, Manon, Leffel, A. B. McNeice, Wash Moirris, Wesley Morris, Thomas Floyd (shot), John Crisp, James Powers, Rama Dye, J. Dawson, Wiley, K. Morris, Barnes, Milburn, W. Anderson, Gross, Ward,, Dr. Johnson, Childs, Senir, Childs, Junior, Hampton, Locke, Foster, Fields, D. Anderson, D. Taylor, R. Manton, Jones, carmichael, Henry Cochran.

Walt

438 posted on 05/16/2003 8:18:20 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa (Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
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