. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland: . nor and even trifling 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, and21st; and Major-General McCook, who fully retains the confidenceand estee
. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland: . nor and even trifling 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, and21st; 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, , he was marriedto Miss Kate Philips, of Dayton, Ohio, a lady whose beauty andgentleness are appreciated in the Army of the Cumberland, whereshe has since been a welcome visitant. In this instance thesaying is indeed trite, that none but the brave deserve thefair. # ^i.^^^. mcii^t ®r STASF^. Enl^tjjr & JB LIPPIKTCOTT Sc }*- Pajor-^encral %ovdl 1. lousseait and $hf^. LovELL H. EoussEAU, Major-Greneral of Volunteers, command-ing Ist 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 sxibject of this sketchbeing a Gaines, thus connecting him with the Gaineses and Pen-dletons of Virginia. Acquii-ing the rudiments of an English education at a com-mon country school, young Eousseau prosecuted his studies,unassisted, at home, mainly by night; and thus he masteredthe French language, the elements of mathematics, &c. Thedeath of his father, and the call upon him t
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