April 17, 1863, Memphis Daily Appeal (Jackson, Mississippi)
We clip the following paragraph from the local column of a New Orleans paper sent to us a few days since by a friend:
Miss P–––, a young lady who sympathizes with the rebels, was yesterday forenoon walking through the street waving a secession flag which had been worked in one corner of her pocket handkerchief. She met a naval officer and waved it, if not in his face at least very conspicuously before him. The officer came to a halt, and she waved it again, whereupon he arrested her and took her before the provost marshal general. While answering the questions of that officer, she employed her pretty teeth in eating the flag out of the handkerchief. The general sentenced her to forfeit the handkerchief, and to report in person every day at 1 o’clock, for one month, to the city provost marshal. Thus Miss P_____ will be reminded thirty times that she is under the protection of the United States government, and that it is not becoming for such to go through the streets waving the ensign of traitors. We trust that her thirty journeys to the marshal’s office will make her a wiser woman.