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November. On the part of the Confederates 

 the same course was pursued. On the 1st of 

 December, the Federal troops in the State were 

 estimated at 70,000, of which there were nine 

 regiments from Illinois, sixteen from Indiana, 

 seventeen from Ohio, three from Pennsylvania, 

 one from Michigan, three from Wisconsin, and 

 two from Minnesota, and at least twenty-five 

 thousand of her own soldiers. The army was 

 well appointed, and with batteries of artillery 

 and squadrons of cavalry to give it greater 

 efficiency. The force of Kentucky alone, on the 

 10th of December, may be stated as follows : 



Ready to be sworn in . _ . 17,200 



To which add four regiments recruited in 



Camp Dick Robinson and in service . . . 4,000 

 Two regiments in Rousseau's Brigade . . . 2,000 

 Provost-Marshal's force at Louisville . . . 500 

 Kentuckians in the two regiments in Western 



Virginia, say 1,000 



Residents of "the State who went to other 



States and entered the service, say . . . 1,000 



Recruited for the regular army, say .... 300 



Making a force of 26,000 



This vast force was looking ultimately to 

 Nashville and the State of Tennessee ; to with- 

 stand it, there, was the force of Gen. Buckner, 

 now estimated at thirty thousand men. No 

 affair of importance occurred between these 

 hostile troops during the year, except a small 

 one at Mnnfordsville. (See MUNFORDSVILLK.) 



Early the next year the Federal force com- 

 menced its march" with, brilliant success, and 



by the 1st of March, 1862, every Confederate 

 soldier had left the State. The effect of such 

 a state of affairs as existed in Kentucky, 

 upon all industrial pursuits, can be more 

 easily imagined than described. Trade was 

 paralyzed, commerce destroyed, the happiest 

 social relations forever extinguished, and citi- 

 zens of every class deeply embarrassed or 

 ruined. Many prominent individuals in the 

 State joined the South and became leaders in the 

 Confederate army, among whom may be named 

 Humphrey Marshall and John C. Breckinridge. 

 The latter was Vice-President of the United 

 States during the previous term, and a Senator 

 in Congress previous to his appointment to a 

 brigadier-generalship in the Southern army. 



Battles and Skirmithts in Kentucky in 1861. 



LACORDAIRE, JEAX BAPTISTS HEXRI, a 

 celebrated preacher of the Roman Catholic 

 Church, born at Recey-upon-Ource, in the de- 

 partment of Cote d'Or, France, May 12, 1802, 

 died in Paris, Dec. 1861. He was the son of a 

 physician, at whose death his widow devoted 

 herself to the education of her three sons in the 

 Catholic faith. He entered the College of Dijon 

 at an early age, and graduated in 1819 with the 

 highest honor, but avowed himself, despite his 

 mother's cares and anxieties, an infidel of the 

 Voltairean School. He next entered upon a 

 course of law studies at Dijon, and distinguished 

 himself among his associates equally by his elo- 

 quence and his irreligious tendencies. Admitted 

 to the bar in 1822. he came to Paris, and for 18 

 mouths practised his profession in the Court 

 of Cassation. In 1824 he suddenly abandoned 

 the law and entered the theological seminary of 

 St. Sulpice. Here he became as remarkable for 

 devotion as he had been before for scepticism, 

 but carried his love of liberty into his new call- 

 ing, and occasioned his superiors much anxiety 

 by his erratic movements. In 1827 he was or- 

 dained to the priesthood, and soon after ap- 

 pointed almoner to the College of Henry IV., 

 where he formed the acquaintance of Lamen- 

 nais. the founder of a new system of politico- 

 theology, in which ultra devotion to the Church 



was combined with the corapletest radicalism 

 in politics. Ih 1830 Montalembert and Larn- 

 ennais associated Lacordaire with them in 

 founding a new journal, " ISAtenir" (" The 

 Future,") for which they adopted the motto 

 " God and Liberty," and which they an- 

 nounced was to be devoted alike to the abso- 

 lute authority of the Pope and the people. The 

 audacity of the theories propounded by thia 

 journal, and the vehemence of its language, 

 soon caused its editors to be arraigned before 

 the courts, where Lacordaire pleaded their 

 cause and secured their triumphant acquittal. 

 The Pope, Gregory XVI., in 1832 issued an 

 encyclical letter, condemning in the severest 

 terms the doctrines advanced in " IlAc-emr" 

 declaring " the whole idea of the regeneration 

 of the church absurd, liberty of conscience a 

 delirium, freedom of the press fatal, and invio- 

 lable submission to the prince a maxim of 

 faith." Lacordaire, who with Montalembert 

 had a short time previously established a free 

 school without legal authorization, and by his 

 eloquence in the court averted all the threat- 

 ened penalties of the law except a trifling fine, 

 was startled by the papal denunciations of the 

 doctrines of UAtenir, and hastened with his 

 colleagues to effect a reconciliation. Lamen- 

 nais was stubborn and defiant, but Lscordaire 



