MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL, [MEMPHIS, TN], February 14, 1862, p. 3, c. 5

Captured Flag.—Capt. W. S. West, provost marshal of New Madrid, exhibited to us, in our office last evening, a United States flag taken by a picket party of four or five men a few days ago, who, under command of Dr. W. P. C. Hendington, made a bold dash into Charleston, Mo., tore the flag from its staff, and rode off before a Lincolnite could lift a hand against them. The gallant Missouri boys are hard to beat.