Item - The Flag of Truce

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Series:	New York Weekly — v. 33 no. 11 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXIII, no. 11, January 28, 1878 (Issue)
Author:	Buntline, Ned, 1822 or 1823-1886 (pseudonym used by Judson, E. Z. C. (Edward Zane Carroll), 1822 or 1823-1890)
Date:	January 28, 1878
First Sentence:	I give the readers of the New York Weekly a little Southern sketch, as first told me by some friends of the hero, and then indorsed by the latter in person, with frank permission to put it in print if I abstained from giving real names.
Last Sentence:	Billy's flag of truce has hung to him ever since, and he says he never puts on a biled shirt without knowing it is well tucked in.