Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-04-11

which time she had not been heard OF,
and no doubt remained that she had per-
ished. His true position had been studi.
,asly concealed, and he avoided his form
cr acquaintances.
Shortly after he received this intelli.
.,ence from the South, Sherman started
on his grand march from Atlanta, and
Grant marshalled his grand army before
Petersburg, and the c. S. A: vanished al
most as vision. During the past sum-
mer Geroux returned to the South, end
was fully confirmed in the information he
rad received about his family, and that
ais real estate had also been confiscated.
He gave his wife and child up as lost and
returned to Cincinnati.
After his wife and child had remained
at Memphis and escaped the disaster of
the aSultana," she started for Chicago
and reached Camp Douglas, Impatient
at any delay, she hastened there, with ex-
pectations high to meet him who was
learer to her than life. The reader can
picture to himself the agony of this sad
wife. a stranger, destitute of money,
carrying in her arms weakly child, not
yet recovered from a severe illness, and
he herself worn out with fatigue and
lnxiety, when she learned that her hus.
oand 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 the inscription on pine
board /:
@MAJOR CHARLES GEROUX,"
"3RD LOUISIANA INFANTRY"
That same grave this day is neatly
,odded over, and at its head grows 3 rose
bush.
Broken. hearted and bowed down with
grief she wended her way on foot to the
great City of Chicago, not knowing why
She went. A stranger among strangers,
with no one to aid or pity her, and none
to comfort her save. the good God. whom
she, in her inmost heart believed, had
forsakcn her.
She was taken in and cared for by the
Sisters of Charity, until she could hear
from friends in Ohio, from whom she re-
eeived no intelligence for the past four
years. A letter was received, that i'm
mediately after The war her uncle had
lied, and, that soon after his widow
iad removed to lroquois County, Ill.,, to
live with her married son, Mrs. Geroux
was supplied with money to enable her to
lind her friends in lroquois County, where
she has since resided.
Geroux returned to his situation at
Cincinnati. and WAS sent by his firm to
collect debt due them in this county.
While here he sought out the attorney
who had him discharged on the habeas
corpus, to learn the whereabouts Of the
horse that did hin, such good service, a. d
to secure his assistance in collecting his
debt. He soon made himself known, and
while they were discussing the stolen
horse, lady and child entered the same
Office.
A momentary pause and husband and
wife were in each others arms. We
shall not attempt to describe the scene
which followed. The wife found a
husband, over whose grave she had shed
bitter tears of woe.
Mrs. Geroux was visiting the same at
torney, to find out about her husbands
coniscatcd property, and to apply to the
government to have his property restored
% her.
Explanations followed, how each sup
posed the other dead. They returned to
lroquois County, a few miles south of our
county line, the same day, and have since
removed to Cincinnati, which city he will
make his permanent home.