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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Reported capture of a whale. (search)
owing dispatch: Cairo. Nov. 28.--On Tuesday last a Secessionist in Paducah, by the name of Woolfolk, hung a secession flag out of his window as some of our troops were passing by, and hurrahed fo sent his Aid-de-Camp, with a squad of men, to order the traitorous flag to be taken in, and if Woolfolk refused, then to take it in and erect the stars and stripes over his house. Woolfolk knowing tWoolfolk knowing that General Smith was senior officer, refused to obey Gen. Wallace's orders, whereupon Wallace's Aid forcibly took down the rebel flag and hoisted the stars and stripes in its stead. In the meantag should not be taken down while there was a live man in his brigade. Wallace's aid said that Woolfolk should sleep under a loyal flag one night any how. Smith's aid replied he did not consider thattemper of the moment, might be resorted to. Gen. Smith, it appears, not only excused the act of Woolfolk, but his aid-de-camp, in referring to the matter, delivered himself of a grossly insulting and