The day before, New Orleans mayor John Monroe had refused to surrender the helpless city to Union Commodore David Farragut's naval forces. Farragut acted with great forebearance but a subordinate the next day ordered a United States flag hoisted over the United States Mint in the city which a mob immediately tore down. The mob's ringleader, William B. Mumford, was later arrested and hanged for treason on June 7, 1862. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Robert Justin Goldstein, ed., Desecrating the American Flag: Key Documents of the Controversy from the Civil War to 1995 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996), 1-2.
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