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The flags of truce over Exiles.

General Bragg has issued the following order relative to flags of truce covering Federal soldiers guarding-Confederate citizens who are seat from beyond the enemy's lines into the Confederate lines:

Headq'rs Dep't no. 2.

Tullahoma, Tena, June 2, 1863.
General Orders, No. 18.

II. The enemy has seen fit to expel from his lines and send to our midst not only those supposed to be guilty of crimes, but non combatants found at their houses in the peaceful pursuits of life. In the perpetration of these outrages on humanity, and these violations of civilized warfare, he has restituted the flag of truce to the base purpose of protecting the guards who drive forth these exiles. Hereafter that flag will not protect those guards, but they will be seized and sent forward to be treated as spins or prisoners of war, as the circumstance in each case may require.

By command of Gen. Bragg.
H. W. Walter, A. A. G.
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 15, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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