Kentuckian in blue : a biography of Major General Lovell Harrison Rousseau / by Dan Lee.

"Lovell Harrison Rousseau was a distinguished Union general in the Civil War. Rousseau served as a state legislator in Indiana and Kentucky before the war. After the war, Rousseau served as a congressman before returning to the service in 1867 as a brigadier general. This biography covers Rousseau's...

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Main Author: Lee, Dan, 1954-
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010.
Subjects:
Rousseau, Lovell Harrison, > 1818-1869.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Kentucky > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Tennessee > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States. > Army > Biography.
Soldiers > Kentucky > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:vii, 246 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • From a boy to a man in Kentucky
  • A new home in Indiana
  • Captain Rousseau in Mexico
  • Louisville and the know-nothing riots
  • Kentucky's secession crisis of 1861
  • Camp Nevin and the federal advance in Kentucky
  • The battle of Shiloh
  • The Corinth campaign
  • Following General Bragg to Kentucky
  • The battle of Perryville
  • The battle of Stones River
  • The Tullahoma campaign
  • Chickamauga and Chattanooga
  • The great Alabama raid
  • The defense of Middle Tennessee
  • Nashville and the end of the war
  • In and out of the House of Representatives
  • Rousseau and an American Alaska
  • The Department of Louisiana.