The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-04-19

possible, reached Momence the next
day. His actions excited suspicion, and
ne was arrested on suspicion of having
stolen the horse, and was lodged in the
Kankakee 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 this city, he OBJ.
tanned situation in wholesale grocery
house.
After the usual delays in passing let
tiers through the lines, he learned that
his two brothers were killed in the bat.
tie OF the Wilderness, that his fathers
estate had been con6scated to the Uni.
ted States Government, and his father
had voluntarily exiled himselfto Mexi
co: OF his wife and child, the only
information was that they had sought
TO get North, and took passage on the
Sullana, since which they had not been
heard of, and no doubt remained that
they had perished. His true position
had been studiously concealed, and he
avoided his former acquaintance. Short.
" after he received this intelligence
from the South, Sherman had started
on his grand march from Atlanta, and
Grant marshaled his grand army before
Petersburg, and the Confederate States
army vanished almost as vision. Du.
ring the past summer, Gerou1 returned
to the South. and was fully confirmed
in the informttion he had received about
his family, and that his real estate had
also been confscated. He gave his
wife and child up as lost, and returned
to Cincinnati.
After his wife and child had remain.
ed in Memphis, and escaped the disas.
ter ofthe Sultann, she started for Chi.
cago, and reached Camp Douglas.
Impatient at the delay, she fastened
there with expectations high to meet him
who was dearer to her than lite. The
reader can picture TO himself the agony
of this sad vile. A stranger, destitute
OF money. carrying in her arms weakly
child not yet recovered from severe
illness, and she herself worn ont with
fatigue and anxiety, 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 ona pine board:
"MAJoR GEORGE GERoUx,
Third louisiana Infantry"
The same grave this day is neatly
sodded over, and at its head grows
rose.bush.
Broken hearted and bowed down
with grief, she wended her way on foot
to the great city of Chicago know.
ing why she went. A stranger among
strangers, with no one to aid or pity
her, save the good 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 received no intelligence
for the past four years. a letter was
received, stating 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 money to enable her to
find her friends in Iroquois County,
where she has since resided.
Geroux returned to his situation at
Cincinnati, and was sent by his firm to
collect debt due in Iroquois County.
While there, he sought out the attorney
who had him discharged on the ha5eas
corpus to learn the whereabouts of the
horse that did him such good service,
and to secure his assistance in collect.
ing 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
momentary pause, and husband and
wife were in each otheys arms. We
shallnot attempt to describe the scene
which followed. The husband found a
wife and child whom he firmly believed
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