On every flag-of-truce boat were placed clothing, medicines, and cordials for the prisoners who had been exchanged. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
While at Old Point she learned that there was about to be an exchange of prisoners, and desiring to render some services in this direction obtained permission from General Butler to proceed, in company with a friend, Miss L.C. on the flag-of-truce boat to City Point, witness the exchange, and render such aid as was possible to our men on their return passage. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
A few days later, and lo! in the distance we beheld another flag-of-truce, a second report. ❋ P. H. Kritzinger (N/A)
A number of ladies had come from all parts of the Confederacy to get a flag-of-truce schooner to New Orleans. ❋ Adelaide Stuart Dimitry (1911)
Add to this ceaseless horror of suspense the long, awful spaces of silence between the flag-of-truce letters - and is it to be wondered at that I plunged into routine work - domestic, literary, religious, charitable, and patriotic - with feverish energy, as the only hope of maintaining a tolerable degree of sanity? ❋ Unknown (1910)
In my next "flag-of-truce" letter, I wrote to let his mother know what we had seen and done, and of the bunch of white flowers left by the nameless friend. ❋ Unknown (1910)
A few days later, a flag-of-truce boat brought up the bodies of our dead. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Ferguson reported the abandonment by the enemy of ten fine boats left on his hands, including the commodore's gig, which he sent to us at Vicksburg, and which we found useful as a flag-of-truce boat. ❋ Unknown (1894)
SHE WAS BEING TOWED STERN FOREMOST. send to the "Adamant" a boat with a flag-of-truce, and a letter demanding the surrender and subsequent evacuation of the British ship. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Some irate officers were of the opinion that enemies like these should be considered no better than pirates, and that their flag-of-truce should be fired upon. ❋ Unknown (1889)
But events proved that no such ideas had entered the minds of the "Adamant's" officers, and their action totally prevented sending a flag-of-truce boat. ❋ Unknown (1889)
When the approach of this flag-of-truce was perceived from the fort nearest the mouth of the harbour, it occasioned much surmise. ❋ Unknown (1889)
The overwhelming effrontery of this demand caused the commander of the "Scarabaeus" to doubt whether he had to deal with a raving lunatic or a blustering fool; but he informed the person in charge of the flag-of-truce boat, that he would give him fifteen minutes in which to get back to his vessel, and that he would then open fire upon that craft. ❋ Unknown (1889)
The anchors of the net were dropped, and behind it the repeller took her place, and shortly afterward she sent a flag-of-truce boat to Portsmouth harbour. ❋ Unknown (1889)
There was no attempt to avenge the murder of the flag-of-truce men. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)
I said, I put in an assorted cargo of dry-goods above, and, favored by a pass, and Major Mulford's courtesy on the flag-of-truce boat, I arrived safely at Richmond before the autumn closed. ❋ Various (1887)
SIR: -- A flag-of-truce boat has arrived with three hundred and fifty political prisoners, General Barrow and several other prominent men among them. ❋ John McElroy (1887)
Beyond Fort Darling the Union gunboats lay, and the only vessel that passed the barrier was the occasional flag-of-truce steamer. ❋ John McElroy (1887)
