Background
Lovell Harrison Rousseau was born near Stanford, Lincoln County, Ky. , of inconspicuous parentage. His father, who had removed to Kentucky from Virginia, died in 1833 and left a large family with scanty resources.
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Lovell Harrison Rousseau was born near Stanford, Lincoln County, Ky. , of inconspicuous parentage. His father, who had removed to Kentucky from Virginia, died in 1833 and left a large family with scanty resources.
The boy managed to attend the common schools for a short time. Determined to rise, he settled in Louisville, where he took up the study of law, and, proceeding feverishly without the aid of a teacher for fourteen hours a day, he acquired a great deal of information but undermined his health.
Rousseau began working on a road-building crew, traveling around the Midwest. In 1840 he moved across the Ohio into Indiana and settled in Bloomfield, where he was admitted to the bar the next February. He served as a Whig in the state House of Representatives during 1844 and 1845. On the outbreak of the Mexican War he became a captain in the 2nd Indiana Infantry. He participated in the battle of Buena Vista and was mentioned for gallantry in the engagement.
On June 23, 1847, he was honorably mustered out, and four days after his return he was elected to the state Senate. However in 1849, a year before his term of office had expired, he returned to Louisville. His constituency refused to let him resign, so theoretically he still served Indiana.
In Louisville he established a reputation as an able criminal lawyer. In 1855 he helped to quell the riot that broke out there, incident to the Know-Nothing movement. Five years later he was actively back in politics with a seat in the Kentucky Senate. So vigorous was his opposition to secession that he resigned from the Senate in 1861 and began to raise troops for the Union. To keep from violating the neutrality Kentucky had announced, he set up his training camp across the river from Louisville, in Indiana, and called it Camp Jo Holt. His efforts were largely responsible for saving the state for the Union.
On September 9, he became colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry, and on October 1 he was promoted to be brigadier-general of volunteers.
He played a prominent part at the battle of Shiloh and later at Perryville so distinguished himself that he was promoted to be major-general of volunteers on October 8, 1862.
He fought in the Chickamauga engagement and also in the battle of Nashville. He took part in many minor activities in Alabama, Mississippi, and western Tennessee. He was an excellent soldier, handsome in appearance, and beloved by his men. In January 1865 the Radical element in Kentucky supported him for the federal Senate, and he was barely defeated by James Guthrie. A few months later he was elected to the federal House of Representatives by a majority of almost a thousand votes. Shortly before the meeting of Congress he resigned from the army, on November 30, 1865.
Forsaking his radicalism, within less than a month he was in the thick of the Reconstruction debates, boldly opposing the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and other legislation and policies that appeared to him extreme. As he listened to the vindictive speeches of his fellow members of Congress who had fought only with their tongues during the war, he lost his temper, and at times his better judgment, and made bitter comments. Josiah B. Grinnell, of Iowa, replied in a tone which greatly enraged him, and, upon the former's delay in offering an apology, in the corridors of the Capitol he beat the Iowan in the face with a cane.
The House, urged on by Thaddeus Stevens, reprimanded Rousseau, whereupon he resigned his seat on July 21, 1866, and stood for reelection (Address of Hon. Lovell H. Rousseau to his Constituents, 1866). His Kentucky constituency returned him, and he served until March 3, 1867. The same month he reentered the army and was made a brigadier-general with the brevet rank of major-general in the regular army and was soon dispatched to Alaska to receive that territory from the Russians. The next year he was summoned to Washington to testify in the Johnson impeachment proceedings. He arrived too late, and on expressing a desire not to be returned to Alaska he was put in charge of the department of Louisiana. He died in New Orleans the following year and was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery.
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Father
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