During the first years of their marriage, Nathan A. Miller and his wife Cordelia experienced "real happiness and enjoyment." Even after he went away to war in 1862, he constantly returned and "furnished her with every assistance in his power." In 1865, however, he discovered she had become a prostitute. In the fall and winter of 1865, she was the proprietor with other "base women" of a house of a house in the suburbs of Asheville, where she lived with some United States soldiers, "& other white men and negroes." She was eventually arrested for keeping a house of ill fame. He seeks a divorce.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
