★ ★ Rousseau, Lovell

Lovell Harrison Rousseau
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Born: August 4, 1818

Birthplace: Stanford, Kentucky

Father: David Quincy Rousseau 1772 – 1833

(Buried: Buried in the road where he died by his children)​

Mother: Catherine "Caty" Gaines

Wife: Maria Antionette Dozier 1826 – 1898

(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)​

Children:

Mary E. Rousseau Watkins 1844 – 1869​

(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)​

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Lt. Richard Hillaire Rousseau 1848 – 1881​

(Buried: Varney Cemetery, Brunswick, Maine)​

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Blanche Rousseau Niles 1849 – 1919​

(Died in Switzerland)​

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Lt. George Lovell Rousseau 1852 – 1882​

(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)​

Occupation before War:

Attorney in Bloomfield, Indiana​

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1844 – 1845: Indiana State Representative​

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1846 – 1847: Served as Captain in Mexican – American War​

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1847: Rallied the Indiana Soldiers at the Battle of Buena Vista​

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1847 – 1849: Indiana State Senator​

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1849 – 1861: Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky​

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1860 – 1861: Kentucky State Senator​

Civil War Career:

1861: Recruiter for the Union Army in Kentucky​

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1861: Raised the Louisville Legion at Camp Joe Holt​

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1861: Colonel of 3rd​ Kentucky Infantry Regiment​

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1861 – 1862: Brigadier General of Union Army, Volunteers​

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1862 – 1865: Major General of Union Army, Volunteers​

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1862: Served in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee​

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Served in the Battle of Stones River, Tennessee​

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1863: Served in the Battle of Hoover's Gap, Tennessee​

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1863: Served in the Movements around Chattanooga, Tennessee​

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1863 – 1865: Union Army Commander of Nashville, Tennessee​

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1864: Raided the Montgomery and West Point Railroad​

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1865 – 1866: United States Congressman from Kentucky​

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1865 – 1866: Member of House Committee on Military Affairs​

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1865: Resigned from the Union Army in November​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1866: United States Congressman from Kentucky​

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1865 – 1866: Member of House Committee on Military Affairs​

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1866: Struck Josiah B. Grinnell with iron handle of rattan cane​

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1866: Resigned from U.S. Congress on July 21st​​

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1866 – 1867: United States Congressman from Kentucky​

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1867 – 1869: Brigadier General in United States Army​

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1867 – 1868: Assigned to duty in Alaska, and helped with transfer​

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1868 – 1869: United States Army, Commander, Dept. of Louisiana​

Died: January 7, 1869

Place of Death: New Orleans, Louisiana

Cause of Death: Mucus engorgement and congestion of the bowels

Age at time of Death: 50 years old

Original Burial Place: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky

Burial Place since 1892: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

 

[Pollaco]

After the war when he was a member of the House of Representatives he was censured for the caning of Congressman Josiah B. Grinnell. This almost sounds like the Brookes/Sumner affair before the War. Does anyone have the details? Rousseau was said to have "controversial career" in congress, was it due to him representing both Indiana and Kentucky , his being in both houses of the Kentucky Legislature, His supporting Johnson or the caning?

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy (August 4th) Birthday to Major General Lovell Rousseau! Salutes remembering General Lovell on his birthday.

 

[Pollaco]

It was Rousseau as a brevetted major general that took possession of Alaska from the Russians.