The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Counterfeiting the flag.

--The trick adopted by the Yankees in their various battles with the Confederates of raising the Confederate flag and imitating the secret signals of the Confederates, is unprecedented in civilized warfare. No nation on the earth has ever before been base enough to descend to such vile superfluous. No chivalric people would desire at advantage gained by such infamous knavery. Yet our depraved adversaries actually pride themselves upon the smartness of such a cowardly and wicked trick. It strikes us that the Confederate Generals should adopt the most summary measures to compel the Yankees to adhere to the rules of honorable warfare. They should formally notify the Federal Generals that every Yankee captured under the Confederate flag, or making Confederate signals, should be hung upon the battle field forthwith, and his miserable