John Rogers Cooke

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John Rogers Cooke

John Rogers Cooke (* 9. June 1833 in Jefferson Barracks , Maryland ; † 10. April 1891 in Richmond , Virginia ) was a brigadier general of the Confederate in the Civil War .

Life

Born in Maryland in 1833, Cooke was the son of US General Philip St. George Cooke and the brother-in-law of Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart . In 1855 he was 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Infantry - Regiment of the US Army .

When the Civil War broke out in 1861, he moved to the Confederate Army camp , was accepted as 1st Lieutenant and took part in the First Battle of the Bull Run near Manassas on July 21, 1861 . In April 1862 Cooke became Colonel of the 27th North Carolina Regiment, which he led on May 31 and June 1, 1862 at the Battle of Seven Pines and was himself wounded. In November 1862 he was promoted to brigadier general and given command of a brigade , which he ran on 11-15. December 1862 at the Battle of Fredericksburg and on 5-6. May 1864 to April 1865 led at the Battle of the Wilderness and was wounded again himself.

After the war, Cooke settled in Richmond, where he worked as a general store. Cooke co-founded the Confederate Soldiers' Home in Richmond.

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher: The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4 .
  • Richard N. Current: Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0-13-275991-8 )
  • John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher: Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
  • Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5 .

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SURNAME Cooke, John Rogers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Jefferson Barracks , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1891
Place of death Richmond , Virginia