. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . rragut. Before we ascendedto the roof, the mayor informed Captain Bell, inthe presence of his officers, that the men whoattempted to haul down the flag might be shot by seated on the right hand of Mayor — theonlyman seatedin the chamber. Their countenances expressed con-sternation. They repeated that the man lived not inthe city who dared to haul down the flag from over theCity Hall. The people —boys generally—were per-fectly quiet until near the City Hall, when they beganto give
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . rragut. Before we ascendedto the roof, the mayor informed Captain Bell, inthe presence of his officers, that the men whoattempted to haul down the flag might be shot by seated on the right hand of Mayor — theonlyman seatedin the chamber. Their countenances expressed con-sternation. They repeated that the man lived not inthe city who dared to haul down the flag from over theCity Hall. The people —boys generally—were per-fectly quiet until near the City Hall, when they beganto give vent to their feelings by Hurrah for Jeff Davis!Hurrah for Beauregard! and the use of some angrylanguage.—Editofs. J It is a strange fact that the three officers of the linewith whom I went on shore on this occasion wereall afterward drowned. Bell, who was then rear-admi-ral, and Bead, who was lieutenant-commander, wereswamped in a boat while going ashore from the Hart-ford, at Osaka, Japan, and Hazeltine as an ensign wentdown in the Housatonic. — A. K. 94 INCIDENTS OF THE OCCUPATION OF NEW ft-jj SCENE AT THE CITY HALL — HAULING DOWN THE STATE FLAG. The local papers spoke of the State flag on the City Hall at the time as the Lone Star flag. General Beaure-gard, in a letter to Admiral Preble, in 1872, says this flag was adopted in 1861 by the State Convention of had thirteen stripes, four blue, six white, and three red, commencing at- the top, with the colors as written. TheUnion was red, with its sides equal to the width of seven stripes. In its center was a single pale-yellow five-pointed star.—A. K. the indignant populace assembled on the surround-ing house-tops, and he expressed his fears in thehope that he would not be held responsible for theact, in case it should be perpetrated. Fortunatelyfor the peace of the city of New Orleans, the vastcrowd looked on in sullen silence as the flag camedown. There was no flag hoisted on the City Hall
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