...arrest and for the lieutenant to take command of the cutter, closing his despatch with these words: " If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." The secessionists in New Orleans would not let the telegram pass, and the cutter was lost, but the...

...for the lieutenant to take command of the cutter, closing his despatch with these words: " If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." The secessionists in New Orleans would not let the telegram pass, and the cutter r 1861.] THE CONFEDERATE...

...Secretary of Treasury John A. Dix issues his thrillingorder, addressed " W. Hemphill Jones, New Orleans": "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot !". . . . Feb. 6 — Texas secedes by legislative act. . . Peace conference assembles at Washington,...

...the civil war, and commanded the Department of the East, 1864; minister to France, 1807; died 1879.] If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot. Ordering by telegraph from Washington, Jan. 29, 1861, the arrest, at New Orleans, of Capt. Breshwood,...

...subsequently Lincoln's great Secretary of War. Gen. John A. Dix, whose famous dispatch, "If1 any person attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot," sent, at a later day, an electric thrill through the heart of every loyal person in the country. Stephen...

...subsequently Lincoln's great Secretary of War. Gen. John A. Dix, whose famous dispatch, " If any person attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot," sent, at a later day, an electric thrill through the heart of every loyal person in the country. Stephen...

...and non-combatants of that city. Gen. Dix in a moment of patriotic fervor had exclaimed, " If any man attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot," and Gen. Butler catching the spirit of this patriotic utterance caused one Mumford who had pulled down...

...subsequently Lincoln's great Secretary of War. Gen. John A. Dix, whose famous dispatch, " If any person attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot," sent, at a later day, an electric thrill through the heart of every loyal person in the country. Stephen...

...possession of the secessionists ; but th< captain of one of the cutters refusing to obey, he sent a tolagram to the lieutenant, ordering the arrest of the captain...settlement, had long been the seat of traffic with che Indians. Catholic missionaries had also established stations at an early date. The eastern portion...

...January, 1861, he sent a telegram to the Treasury agent at New Orleans, containing the remarkable words, "If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot." This message was drawn up by General Dix, in his own handwriting, on a sheet of note-paper, and signed...