Ladies in Irons

RICHMOND [VA] WHIG, January 4, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Yankee Atrocities—Ladies in Irons.
The Yankees under Gen. Wild made a raid into Camden and Pasquotank counties, North Carolina, with white and negro troops. He caused a Confederate soldier to be hanged near Elizabeth City under the plea that he was a guerilla, notwithstanding the latter are commissioned and recognized by Gov. Vance as a part of the State force of North Carolina. One of his negro soldiers was captured by our men, and he took two ladies, Mrs. Weeks and Mrs. Munden of Elizabeth City, and held them as hostages for the safety of this African.—Capt. Elliott, of the guerillas, was notified by Wild that the ladies would be treated as the negro was treated, even to hanging. They were kept in handcuffs until taken to Norfolk, where they are kept in prison, under a negro guard. We state, on the authority of a member of Congress from North Carolina, that when the ladies were taken to Norfolk, the arms of one of them was bleeding from the tightness of the cords with which they were bound. Is there no means by which the cowardly monster can be captured, and no measure by which the abolition demons may be made to regard the ordinary usages of civilized warfare?