Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1866-04-07

that they had sough, 10 ge, North, and
took passage on the Sultana, since which
they had not been heard Of, and no dohbt
remained thai they had perished. His
tue position had been s,udiously conceal.
ed, and he avoided his former arquain-
lances. Shortly after he received this
intelligence from the South, Sherman
started on his grand march from Atlanta,
and Grant marshailed his grand army be-
fore Petersburg, and the Confederate
States army vanished almost as vision.
During the past summer Geroux returned
To the Sonlh, and was fully confirmed in
the information he had received about his
family, and that his real estate had also
been confScsted. He gave his wife and
child up as lost, and returned to Cincjn-
natl.
After his wife and child had remained
in Memphis and escaped the disaster Of
the Sulraaa, she STARTED for Chicago and
reached Camp Douglas Impalien. al
the delay she FASTENED there with expec.
lslions high 10 meet hlm who IVES dear.
er TO her than life. The reader can pic
ture TO himself the agony of this sad wife
"a stranger, destitute Of money, carry.
ing ia her arms weakly child not yet re-
covered from severe lllness, and she
herself worn out with fatigue and ankle
ty-ehen 81 learned that her husband
was dead. There was no doubt Of this
death the registry kept at Camp Doug
las showed it. and The grave was pointed
out 10 her. which bore this INSCRIPTION on
a pine board
"MAJoR CHARLES GERoUX,
Third Louisiana Infantry"
The same grave This day is neatly sod
ded over, and at lis head grows a rose.
bush.
Broken.hearted and bowed down with
grief, she wended her way on foel 10 the
great city Of Chicago-not knowing why
she went. 4 stranger among strangers,
with no one TO aid or piy her, save the
good God, who, in her utmost heart, she
believed had forsaken her.
She was taken and cared for by the
Sisters OF Charity until she could hear
from her friends 10 Ohio, from whom she
had received no intelligence for the past
four years. A letter was received that
in mediarely after the war her uncle had
died, and tha, soon after his widow had
removed TO lroquolS Couliy, Illinois, to
,,I
was supplied with money TO enable her 10
find her friends in lroquois couuly, where
she has since resided.
Geroux returned TO his situation 81
Cincinnati, and was sent by his firm to
collect debt due in lroquos county.
While there he sought out ,he attorney
who had him discharged on the habess
corpus to learn the ~hereahout, Of ihe
horse iha. did him such good service, and
to secure his assistance IN collecting his
debt. He soon o. ade himself known, and
while they were discussing about the sto
len horse. lady and child entered the
same office. There was a momentsry
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 ne 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 at.
lorney 10 find out about her husbands
confscated property, and to apply to the
Government, TO have his property restored
10 her.-Cincinnati Commercial.