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sketeh Of General Roseorana.


Sketch Of General Roseorana.
Our readers win peruse with great
interest the following sketch, from the
Louisville Journal, Of the distinguished
officer, who has recently taken charge of
the Department of the Cumberland A
gentleman informs us that there has been
a universal ovation in the army since his
arrival, every soldier being fred with
new martial enthusiasm May the same
fortune which has hitherto smiled upon
him in all his battles continue to follow
him, in this great struggle for human
rights, and free government.
General William Starke Rosecrans has
been appointed to the command Of the
Department of the Cumberland, including
the State of Tennessee East of the Ten
nessee river, and such parts of Georgia
and Alabama as the Union armies may
occupy. He was born in Kingston town
ship, Delaware county, Ohio, on the 9th
of December, 1919. His parents were
Crandall Rosecrans, whose ancestors were
originally from Amsterdam, Holland, and
+ Jemima Hopkins; the former, native Of
II Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, emigrat-
ed to Ohio in 1903. The early years of
the present General were passed in close
application 10 his studies, so that at the
age of eighteen he was well fitted for his
appointment as cadet at the military
academy at West Point, in 1888. He
graduated with high honors in 1912, be-
/ ing third in mathematics and fifth in gem
eral merit, in a class of fifty-six, num-
, bering many distinguished competitors.
He entered the corps of engineers as
: brevet second lieutenant on the 1st Of
) July, 1912, and served that year at For
tress Monroe, as first assistant, under
4 command of Lieutenant Colonel r d.
; DeBussey. He was ordered TO duty at
! West Point, in 1843 as assistant profess
j. sor of engineering. .r..
Z About this period General Resecrans
9 was united in marriage, at ST, Johns
!, Church, in New York city, 70 Miss A. Il
4 Hegeman, only daughter of Adrian Hege-
Is man, of that city. In 1874, he was de.
detailed as assistant professor Of naiura
and experimental philosophy. In 1876
! he served as assistant and first assist
10 ant professor Of engineering, and haC
. charge of the,department 10 which Cap
y tain Swift had been attached, while tina
Q officer served in Mexico, and was also TO
p nine months post quartermasteT tie wa
ordered to Newport in l847. ie.
e, In l852-63, be was charged with Tia
\, survey of New Bedford and PrOvidenc
p harbors, and Taunton river, under an &C
of Congress appropriating a stated sur
. for the purpose of improvement. Ia Ap
!, ril, 1854, he was ordered TO report 70
I. duty to the Secretary Of the Navy in th
- bureau of docks and yards then assign
ia ed as constructing engineer at Washing
ton navy yard, until November, 1876;
when, on account of i'll health he feI
compelled to resign his position, an
rendered his resignation TO the Secretar
of War, jefferson Davis. The res;gna
tion was not accepted from desire [
90 retain so valuable an officer in the ser
% vice, and leave Of absence was granted
90 with the understanding that, at its tel
80 minus, If the resignation was insiste
"a upon, il would be accepted, which wa
90 subsequently, done in April, 1854.
From that date to June, 1855, Generi
Il Roseefans occupied en- office in Cincir
natti, as consulting engineer and arch
90 tcot When Gen. Mcclellan was al
% pointed, he at once selected Gen. Ross
% Grams as his aid and acting chief eng
90 neer, with the rank of Major. The Lee
a. islature Of Ohio then purposely create
90 the Office Of chief engineer of the Stat
% which was intended for Gen, Rosecrar
~ | "A N.A L.~I H..
% June, 1861, he was appointed by Go
20 Dennison, Colonel of the 23d Regimen
90 Ohio Volunteers and was sent upon
IN. mission to Washington City, to arranl
do, for tue maintenance and payment Of ii
nm Ohio contingent forces. On the Goth
June he was nominated, by the Presiden
Su a Brigadier General in the regular arm,
and assigned TO duty under Gen. No
rd' Clellan, then in Virginia. he served uI
der Mcclellan with distinguished gallar
try, and when Gen. Mcclellan was calle
a. 10 Washington 10 take charge of Il
army Of the Potomac, Rosecrans WI
appointed TO the command of d
army in Western Virginia. an
90 whilst in that position, made OF
% OF the most successful and tru
." brilliant campaigns OF the war, an
added new lustre on the American arm
is' When the campaign closed he went
Wheeling, Va, and established his heal
quarters there, but the life.was so mon,
lhe ton0us, and be was so anxious for acti
seruce, that the President assigned hi
TO a command under Gen. Grant VIII
b in this position he fought and won ~
OF the most important battles of IA