Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-04-20

and place OF burial were dufy recorded III the
register of Camp Douglas dead, by G. III.
Jordan, the undertaken for the Government,
at Chicago. That night Geroux escaped. -
His absence created no inquiry, as he was
reported dead. For the purpose of avoiding
public roads and conyeyances, he took horse
from the pasture near Camp Douglas, belong
ING to. j. l.. Hancock, formerly President of
the Board of Trade Of Chicago, and by avoid
ing the public roads as much as possible,
reached Memence the next day. His actions
excited suspicion, and was lodged in the
KanalSee jail. He was taken out on a writ
of habeas corpus, and no proof being found
to hold him, he was discharged.
Coming thence to Cincinnati he obtained a
situation in wholesale grocery business.
After the usual delays in passing letters
through the lines, lac learned that his two
brothers were killed in the battle of the Will
derness, that his fathers whole estate had
been confscated to the United States Govern
ment, and his father had voluntarily exiled
himself to Mexico. Of his wife and child,
the only information was that they had sought
to get North, and took passage on the Sui
tana, since which they had not been heard
of, and no doubt remained that they had per-
ished His true position had been studious,
concealed, and he avoided his former acquain-
tances Shortly after he received this intel
ligence from the South, Sherman started Gil
bis grand march from Atlanta, and Grant
marshaled his grand army before Petersburg,
and the Confederate States Army vanished
almost as vision. During the past Summer
Geroux returned to the South, and was fully
confirmed in the inf anation he had received
about his family, and that his real estate had
also been been confscated. He gave his
wife and child up as lost, and returned to
Cincinnati.
After his wife and child had remained in
Memphis and escaped the disaster Of the Sui
tana, she started for Chicago and reached
Camp Douglas Impatient at the delay she
fastened there with expectations high to meet
him who was dearer to her than her life
The reader can picture to himself the agony
of this sad wife, 4 stranger destitute Of
money, carrying in her arms weakly child
not vet recovered from a severe illness, and
she herself worn out with fatigue and ankle
ty, when she learned that her husband was
dead. There was no. doubt of his death the
registry kept at Camp Douglas showed it,
and the grave was pointed out to her, which
bore this description on a pine board:
"MAJOR CHARLES GEROUN.
rnrnAhsprsIisAN INFANTRY
The sanie.. I'VE this day is neatly sodded
over, and at.its head grows a rose bush.
Broken hearted and bowed down with
grief, she wendell her way on foot to the
great City Of Chicago not knowing why she
went. \ stranger among strangers, with
no one to aid and pity her, save the God,
who in her utmost heart, she believed had
forsaken her.
She was taken in and cared for by the
Sisters of Charity until she could hear from
her friends in Ohio, from whom she had re-
ceiyed no intelligence for the past four years.
A letter was received, that Immediately after
the war her uncle had died, and that, soon
after, his widow had removed to Iroquois
County, Illinois, to live with her married
SON. Mrs. Geroux was supplied with mon
ey to enable her to find her friends in Iro-
quois County, where she has since resided
Geroux returned to his situation at Cincin-
natl, and was sent by the firm to collect a
debt due in Iroquois County. While there
he sought out the attorney who had him dis
charged on the habeas corpus, to learn the
whereabouts Of the horse that did him such
good service, and to secure his assistance in
collecting his debt. He soon made himself
known, and while they were discussing about
the stolen horse, lady and child entered the
same office There was a momentary pause.
and husband and wife were in each others
arms We shall not attempt to describe the
scene which followed. The husband found
wife and child, whom he firmly believed
to be dead, and the wife found husband
over whose grave she had shed bitter tears
Of woe.
Mrs. Geroux was visiting the same attor-
ney, to find out about her husbands confs-
Gated property, and to apply to the Govern
ment to have his property restored to hcr.-
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