This is the true story a woman swindled out of a fortune by her famous ex-Confederate husband, General Philip Dale Roddey. You will find this story no where else in material about Roddey but it was splashed across the nation in newspapers in 1874 and followed closely by The New York Times. The well-invested legacy left by her father had made her rich but she didn’t know the man who introduced her to everyone as his wife was a bigamist and adulterer.