Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-05-25

of avoiding public roads and convey
ances, he took a horse from pasture
near Camp Douglas, belonging to J.
L. Hancock, formerly President of the
Board of Trade of Chicago, and by
avoiding public roads as much as pos
sible, reached Momence the next day.
His actions excited suspicion, 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 no
proof being found to hold him, he was
discharged.
Coming thence to this city he OBJ
tanned situation in a wholesale gro
Gerry store
After the usual delays in passing
letters through the lines, he learned
that his two brothers were killed in
the battle Of the Wilderness, that his
fathers estate had been confscated to
the United States Government, and
his father had voluntarily eXiled him
self to Mexico OF his wife and child
the only information was that they
had sought to get North and took pas
sage on the Sultana, 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 had avoided his
former associates. Shortly after he
received this intelligence from the
South, Sherman started on his grand
march from Atlanta, and Grant mar
shalled his grand army before Peters
burg, and the Confederate States army
vanished almost as a vision. During
the past summer 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 remain
ed in Memphis and escaped the disas
ter Of the Sultana, she started lOl
Chicago, and reached Camp Douglas
Impatient at the delay, she hasteneC
there with expectations high to meet
him who was dearer to her than life
The reader can picture to himself the
agony of this sad wife. A stranger
destitute Of money. carrying i'll hel
arms a weakly child not yet recovered
from q severe illness, and she hcrsel
worn out with fatigue and anxiety
when she learned that her husband
was dead. There was no doubt o
his death; the registry at Camp Doug
las showed it, and the grave pointed
., ont to her, which bore this inscription
on pine board:
MAJOR CHARLES GEROUX,
Third Louisiana Infantry"
5 The same grave this day is neatl,
s.,,ddo>l over, aud at it, head grows
rose bush.
Broken hearted and broken dowl
= with grief, she wended her way ol
c foot to the great city of Chicago-no
4 knowing why she went. \ strange
5 among strangers, with no one to ali
e or pity her, save the good God. who
in her utmost heart, she believed ha'
Il forsaken her.
o She was taken in and cared for b
t the Sisters Of Charity until she coul
t hear from her friends in Ohio, irol
o whom she had received no intelIigcnc
e for the past four years. A letter wa
! received, that Immediately after til
' war her uncle had died, and that 500
/ after, his widow had removed to Ire
} quois, Illinois, to live with her ma
T. ried son. Mrs. GeronX was supple
e with money to enable her to find he
: friends, in Iroquois county, where sll
II has since resided.
/ Geroux returned to his situation {
y Cincinnati, and was sent by his fri
II to collect debt due in liquoiS coul
IT ty. While there he sought out tt
z attorney who had him discharged 0
ol the habeas corpus, to learn the wher
'e abouts Of the horse that did him sue
e good service, and to secure his assis
Is ance III collecting his debt. He SOC
E. made himself known, and while the
s were discussing about the stolen hOrs
a lady and child entered the same {
le fee. There was a momentarv paus
a and husband and wife were in eaC
H. others arms. We shall not atteml
TO to describe the scene which followe
The husband found a wife and chi
e. whom he firmly believed to be dea
II and the wife found a husband. oy
n, whose grave she had shed bitter tea
ay of woe.
On Mrs. GerOux was visiting the sal
lis attorney, to find out her husband
= confscate property, and to apply
IL the Government to have his proper
ne restored to her.
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