Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1866-12-06

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river, and took passage on the ill-fated
steamer Sutana, for the North. She
sold some jewelry for money sufficient to
carry her to Chicago Arriving at Mem
phis, her child was taken very i'll, and by
the advice of the Captain of the Sultana
she remained there to secure medical aid
for the child, Within twenty four hours
thereafter the boiler of the Sultana ex-
ploded by torpedo concealed in the
hold, and 1913 lives were lost.
Geroux Jared i'll at ease in Camp
Douglas, and made many stategems to
escape. lie finally succeeded in brbing
raw sentinel to let him pass, and to a.
void pursuit resort to deception became
necessary. A comrade of his was on the
point of death. His mess dressed the
dead soldier in the Majors uniform, and
carried him to the dead house, and gave
his name as "Major Charles Geroux, Sd
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. H. Jordon, 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 avoiding public roads
and conveyances, he took horse from a
pasture near Camp Douglas, belonging to
John L. Hancock, formerly President of
the Board of trade, and by avoiding pub
lie roads as much as possible, reached
Momence the next day. His actions ex-
cited suspicion; and he was arrested on
suspicion Of having stolen the horse. and
was lodged in Kankakee jail He was
taken out on writ of habeas corpus, and
no proof being found to hold him he was
discharged. His attorney, however, held
the horse, and returned it to the owner.
Geroux found difficulty in getting
through the lines, aud was almost out Of
fpnds, and partly for the purpose of Wis
iting the scenes of his college days, and
partly to wait "until something should
turn up" whereby he could get South, he
went IRON here to Ohio.
Here he spent the last of his money.
He was not easily to be discouraged
Through the assistance of Professor 10
the College, to whom he told part of his
history, he obtained asituation in whole
sale house in Cincinnati. From here he
communicated with his friends in the
south. After the usual delays in pass
ing letters through the lines, be learned
that his two brothers were killed in the
battle of the Wilderness, and his fathers
estate bad been coufscated to the United
States Government, and his father had
voluntarily exiled himself to Mexico
Of his wife and child, the only informa-
tion was, they sought to get North and
took passage on the Sultana, since which
she had not been heard of, and no doubt
remained that they had persisted. His
true position had been studiously con-
cealed, and he avoided his former ac-
quaintances. Shortly after he received
this intelligence from the South, Sher-
man started his grand march from AT.
lanta, and Grant marshaled his grand ar
my before Petersburg, and the G S. A.
vanished almost like 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 al.o
been con6scated He gave his wife and
child up as lost, and returned to Cincin-
natl.
After his wife and child had remained
at Memphis and escaped the disaster of
the Sultana, she started for Chicago and
reached Camp Douglas Impatient at
any delay, she fastened there, with high
expectations to meet him who was dearer
to her than life. The reader can pict-
ure the agony of this sad wife. A stran-
ger, destitute Of money, carrying in her
arms weakly child, not yet recovered
from severe illness, and she herself
worn out with fatigue and anxiety. when
she learned her husband was dead
There was no doubt Of his death; the !