Mrs. Munden was in delicate health, was forced from a home immediately laid in ashes, with all it contained, without other apparel than she wore upon her person, and passed several nights in the cheerless and cold apartments to which she was confined at that inclement season, before the humanity of her captors were so far softened as to permit blankets to be furnished for her use. They were kept until Thursday, and then removed to Norfolk. It has been represented to her husband that when Mrs. Munden was carried off, her wrists were bleeding from the stricture of the cords with which she was bound. The purpose of these arrests of unarmed and helpless women will appear from the letter of General Wild to Captain Elliott, dated December 17th, which accompanies this report. By this time you know that I am in earnest.
Guerrillas are to be treated as pirates.
For what purpose General Wild's own letter to Captain Sanderlin, written after his retreat to Virginia, and bearing date December 22d, will disclose. I shall treat him exactly as your people treat that soldier. Major Gregory was released afterwards and returned, not to his home, for that was destroyed, but to his friends, only to die from a paralysis with which he was stricken while a prisoner in the enemy's hands. A small Confederate force captured two of his negroes, in a skirmish, and for this he outraged all the laws of civilized war. At the time referred to they had been attached to, and formed part of, the sixty-sixth North Carolina regiment, under command of Colonel James W. Hinton.