April 15, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)
We learn from the Raleigh Progress that a number of women, most of them very abandoned, collected at Greensboro’ the early part of this week and intended to make a mob demonstration similar to that at Richmond and other places, but by the promptness of the authorities, the contemplated disgraceful proceedings were frustrated.
We are informed also, (says the Progress) that an attempt was made by a number of “hard cases” at Durham’s Depot, on Wednesday. They threatened to break open the warehouse at that place and help themselves to flour, and even had carts there to take off the flour, but they concluded after demonstration, to put it off until Saturday.
In both cases, we learn, the women represented themselves as soldiers’ wives, but in fact most of them were not, but on the contrary the most degraded and worthless characters that could be congregated in the neighborhood from whence they came. Profligate, unprincipled men, too, we are assured were hounding them on in each case.