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John J. Crittenden, during four terms United States Senator from Kentucky; twice Attorney-General of the United States; ex-governor of Kentucky.
From a daguerreotype taken about 1851.
in the session.
Of 1860-61 Senator Crittenden introduced resolutions called the “Crittenden compromise,” proposing as an unalterable Constitutional amendment that slavery be prohibited north of the parallel of 36° 30‘, and never interfered with by Congress south of that line.
Though this was the, most promising of the numerous plans for a compromise, the resolutions failed for want of agreement.-editors. |
Muldraugh's Hill.
Rousseau, with twelve hundred men, followed in a few hours.
The whole force was under
Brigadier-General W. T. Sherman, who had shortly before, at
Anderson's request, been assigned to duty with him. On arriving at
Lebanon Junction Sherman learned that rolling Fork Bridge, a few miles farther on, had just been destroyed.
The Home Guards debarked at the
Junction, and
Rousseau moved forward to the
Bridge, finding it still smoking.
A reconnoissance in force, carried for some distance beyond the river, found no enemy, and the burning of the
Bridge indicated that no farther advance was intended immediately.
General Sherman's army was rather a motley crew.
The Home Guards did not wear regulation uniforms, and
Rousseau's men were not well equipped.
Muldraugh's Hill had been occupied for six weeks or more during the summer by a regiment of the State Guard, and the people in the vicinity were
