The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-08
An Interesting Story OF the War
Facts Stranger than Fiction.


There are now living in Cincinnati
family, the history of which forms
something so romantic as to consti-
tute a most interesting story:
In the summer of 1859, Charles
Geroux became graduate of a col
iege in the Southern part of this
State. He was the descendant of an
aristocratic family who lived in Lou
isiana, and, to be brief, he was then
9 full embodiment of the " chivalry, +"
l4st having entered his majority.
While attending college, he had
formed the acquaintance of Clara
-, who attended g college for
young ladies in tbs city, which &C.
qualntance apened into attachment
ana loe, and, just before the break
Out of the rebellion, they were
narried, and removed South. Miss
= was an orphan, possessed of
considerable property, which was
held IN trust by her uncle, South
minister, who had raised her
I'm infancy, and personally super
irtended her education. In addition
20 the endowments of collegiate
education, she was possessed of
strong character, bordering almost on
!, the masculine, but tempered with
'lsH-eetness and mildness not often
combined in the same person. She
was at once handsome and womanly.
Within a year after their marriage
and settlement in the South, came
the fierce, wild blasts of war from
TSumter's parapet, and there was none
more ready to enter the deadly fray
than Charles Geroux. His political
tutors were practical secessionists, and
he entered upon the war with a fer
vor and zeal to command the admira-
tion of his friends. and which secured
him majors commission. His wife
Appposed his mad scheme with all the
spower of a woman's reloquence, but
30 no avail. She OPP My espoused the
cause of the Union, and steadfastly
refused to cooperate with her new
friends and neighbors. Notwith-
her love for the old flag, and
Bpen Unionism, her husband loved
her, and, while her husband was at
home, the neighbors respected her.
Geroux invested all his ready proper
ty, which included his wife's fortune,
IN Confederate bonds, placed them in
her hands, gave her kiss for a short
farewell, assuring her that the war
would soon be over, and, marching
at the head of o victorious column Of
his country's defenders, she would be
proud to welcome him. After his de.
parture, her treatment by his re-
latives and neighbors became almost
intolerable because of her hatred of
secession.
After two years of service in the
Confederate army, he was captured O
prisoner by the victorious Sherman,
In his march to Atlanta, and sent to
Camp Douglas.
This was good news to his wife,
who could no longer endure the per.
secutions she received at the South,
and she resolved to make her way
North and rejoin him in his prison
home, and if she could not secure
his pardon, to at least stay near him.
Her Confederate bonds were worth
less, and she was penniless; she made
Bher way to the Mississippi River, and
took passage on the ill-fated steamer
Sultana for the North; she sold some
jewelry for money sufficient to carry
her to Chicago. Arriving at Mem
phis, her child was taken very III,
and by the advice of the captain of
the Sultana, she remained there to
secure medical aid for the child.
Within twenty-four hours thereafter,
&he boiler OF the Sultana exploded, >.
200 lives werelost.
ioux Jared ill at ease in Camp
and made many stratagems
- de finally succeeded in
= sentinel to let him pass;
pursuit, q resort to de-