. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland : comprising biographies, descriptions of departments, accounts of expeditions, skirmishes, and battles ; also its police record of spies, smugglers, and prominent rebel emissaries ... and official reports of the battle of Stone River and of the Chickamauga Campaign . ing occurrences have con-tributed to momentous results. Be the circumstances of thismishap as they may, the author but repeats the familiar mili-tary opinion and criticism of months past, in asserting thatthey were such as no ordinary military foresight could haveforeseen, and no individual
. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland : comprising biographies, descriptions of departments, accounts of expeditions, skirmishes, and battles ; also its police record of spies, smugglers, and prominent rebel emissaries ... and official reports of the battle of Stone River and of the Chickamauga Campaign . ing occurrences have con-tributed to momentous results. Be the circumstances of thismishap as they may, the author but repeats the familiar mili-tary opinion and criticism of months past, in asserting thatthey were such as no ordinary military foresight could haveforeseen, and no individual human skill and bravery have morespeedily resisted. After the occupation of Murfreesborough, the Army of the Cum-berland was divided into three army corps,—the 14th, 20th, and2l8t; and Major-General McCook, who fully retains the confidenceand esteem of the commander-in-chief and of his soldiers, wasassigned to the command of the 20th Army Corps, the position henow holds. On the 29th day of January, 1868, he was marriedto Miss Kate Philips, of Dayton, Ohio, a lady Avhose beauty andgentleness are appreciated in the Army of tlic Cumberland, whereshe has since been a welcome visitant. In this instance thesaying is indeed trite, that none but the bravo deserve thefair. ^^,.6E«.»l,Sse^^^ ^^^\o-; c r^. ^ ^^ iflFiSEI^S ®r STArF. Ul;tjor-(!5fncntl lotcll i. foussHiiu and Staff. LovELL H. EoussEAU, Major-Gencral of Volunteers, command-ing 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, was born in Lincoln county,Kentucky, August 4, 1818, and is of Huguenot stock, derivedthrough purely Southern channels. His father was descendedfrom one of three brothers who settled in South Carolina shortlyafter the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This Huguenot linesubsequently allied itself with some of the most noted familiesof the Old Dominion, the mother of the subject of this sketchbeing a Gaines, thus connecting him with the Gaincses and Pen-dletons of Virginia. Acquiring the rudiments of an E
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