The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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What the "Old Flag" is.

--Bill Thompsom the notorious bushwhacker in East Tennessee was captured last week by our troops and executed on the spot. The Yankees have a high opinion of the love these bushwhackers have for "the old flag." From a paragraph in the Bristol Gazette we take the following description of the old flag that Thompson was fighting for.

His house and premises were searched, and vast quantities of stolen goods were found secreted in boxes around the house. These boxes were filled with china and glassware, bed clothes, and wearing apparel, and the boxes concealed under brush heaps and old logs, &c., some distance from the house. Large quantities of leather were found, bearing different marks, as though it had been taken from several tanneries, and all in a rough and unfinished state, as it came from the vale. Many articles of value were identified by the owners and taken away. It appeared on investigation, that this monstrous development of Unionism in the person of Thompson has been reduced to a regular and organized form of robbery, for all the witnesses — tories and Southern men — concurred in the statement that he and his gang of robbers had only robbed the houses and of decided and avowed Southern men.