Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-06-07

i'll, and by the advice of the captain OF the
Sultana, she remained there to secure
medical aid for her child. Within twenty
four hours thereafter the boiler Of the Sui
tana exploded and twelve hundred lives
were lost
Geroux Jared i'll at ease in Camp Doug
las, and made many stratagems to escape.
He finally succeeded in bribing a raw sem
tinel to let him pass, and to avoid pursuit
a resort to deception became necessary
A ccmrade of his was on the point of
death. His mess dressed the dead soldier
in the ma jOr's uniform, and conveyed him
to the dead house, and gave his name as
| ''Aajor Charles Geroux, Third Louisiana
Regiment, G. S. A The next morning
| the body was taken away and buried, and
the rank, name, regiment and place OF
| burial, were duly recorded in the register
of Camp Douglas dead, by G. IL 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 avoid
| ing public roads and conveyances, he took
| a horse from the pasture near Camp Doug
| las belonging TO j. L. HANCOCK, formerly
| President of the Board of Trade of Chi
| cago, and by avoiding the public roads as
much as possible, he reached Momence
the next day. His actions excited suspi-
cion, and he was arrested on suspicion OF
having stolen the horse, and was lodged
in the kankakee jail. He was taken out
on writ of habeas corpus, and DO proof
| being found to hold him, he was dis
charged.
Coming thence TO Cincinnati he obtain
| ed q situation in a wholesale grocery bust
ness.
After the usual delays in passing letters
through the lines. he learned that his two
brothers We're killed In the battle of the
! Wilderness, that his fathers estate had
been confscated to the United States Gov
ernment, and his father had voluntarily
exied himself to Mexico. OF his wife
and child, the only information was that
they had sought to get North, and took
passage on the Sultana, since which they
had not been heard of, and no doubt re-
manned that they had perished. His true
position had been studiously concealed,
and he avoided his former acQuaintances
Shortly after he received this intelligence
from the South, Sherman started on his
grand march from Atlanta, and Grant
marshaled his grand army before Peters
burg, and the Confederate army vanished
almost as vision. During the past sum-
mer Geroux returned TO the South, and
was fully confirmed in the information 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 remained
in Memphis and escaped the disaster of
the Sultana, she started for Chicago and
reached Camp Douglas. Impatient at
the delay, she hastened there with expec-
tations high to meet him who was dearer
to her than life. The reader can picture
to himself the agony of this sad wife. \
stranger, destitute of money, carrying in
her arms weakly child not yet recovered
from a severe illness, and she herself worn
out with fatigue and anxiety, when she
learned that her husband was dead -
| There was no doubt of his death; the reg,
istry kept at Camp Douglas showed it.
| and the grave was pointed out to her
: which bore this inscription on pine
board: