Served them Right-At Galveston, Texas, an order having been issued by the Confederate authorities for every family to leave that city, in anticipation of its bombardment by the Yankees, and it being determined to defend it, like Vicksburg, to the last, some seven families refused to leave. Suspicion being excited, the houses of these seven families were searched, when the "Stars and Stripes" were discovered, to be floating in the breeze, should the Yankees take the city. The cord was not long in doing its work. All those who were guilty of this treason were taken out, and upon short shrift, were hung.

Yorkville Enquirer (Yorkville, SC) 24 July 1862 (Page 2)