Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-07-06
Major General j. ID. Cox.

We take the following sketch from the Gin
cinnati Gazette: 97 were lfj'''f 'a'sssa So
AS this distinguished army officer and citi-
zen Of Ohio has just been selected hy the Tn
ion party us their candidate for Governor, and
will undoubtedly be trinmphantly elected, it is
meet that the people Of the State should be in
structed as to his antccedcnts, and more es-
pecially that they should be conversant viii,
The brilliant services he has performed in the
terrible conflict just now SO happily closed by
the collapse of the so,called Southern Con
federacy." We propose, therefore, to give
our readers truthful and correct sketch OF
his career, from his birth to the present time,
collated from data now being collected by the
publishing house Of Messrs. Moore, Wilstaeh
L. Baldwin, Of this city, for their forthcoming
History Of Ohios Participation in the War
Of the Rebellion" g.
The subject of our sketch was born Octo.
Der q, 1928, and is Of the staunch old Puri-
tan stock, his parents being both natives OF
the United States, and his mothera lneal de-
scendant of Elder William Brewster, Of the
Mayhower. His father was for many years a
master builder, in the city of New York, and
the boyhood and youth of Gen. Cox was passed
in that city In 1916, then barely 10 years OF
age, he emigrated to Ohio, and entered Ober.
lin College, where he graduated iu 1851. In
1858 he settled at Warren. Trumbull county,
Ohio, and began the practice ofthe law. His
evident fitness for the position, his eloqucnce
as public speaker and success at the bar,
soon marked him as rising man, and in 1859
the Republican party of his District elected
l.. al tI,o,r
representative in the Senate of Ohio, which
position he held at the outbreak of the rebel.
lion. We all rccollect the almost helpless
position in which our great State was found
at this time. The many years of prosperity
and peace had almost obliterated even the idea
Of war q We.had no militia system--at least
if we had it was merely nominal, and not OF
the least possible force The arms that had
been from time to time furnished by the Gen
eral Government, had long been rendered use
less by inattention, and were rotting in un.
known warehouses and cellars in different
parts of the State. General Cox had for some
time held the nominal position of Major Gen.
eral of the militia Of the State, and went to
work at once in preparing Legislative enact
ments which should put Ohio in preparation
for the impending shock Of war and in this
important duty the then excellent Governor,
Wm.e Dennison, had no more competent or
energetic assistant aS yEse aAj
8 When the news of the bombardment Of
Sumpter came Senator Cox abandoned all
other duties to assist in organizing the Ohio
contingent in response to-, the cali of Presi-
dent Lincoln forts, 900 volunteers. So eff
cient md energetic were his services that on
the '23d of April, 1861, he was commissioned
by Governor Dennisonsas Brigadier General
Of Ohio Volunteers--all the officers under
that call being commissioned by the Govern
ors ofsthe several States 1t will be recollect-
ed that at the same time General Mcclellan
was selected by the Governor as Major Gener-
al The first duty devolving upon General
Cox was to assist General Mcclellan in an in
spection of the Arsenal of the State, and in
making estimates for the arming and equip
ping OF 10000 men---Ohios quota Of the
1900. The interior of that ancient edfice
presented wofnl dearth of warlike stores
not even enough to put into the field a battal
lion of infantry Or a, battery of artillery In
fact, the State was completely defenceless, lex-
cept by the brave hearts and muscular arms
OF its patriotic people. pts aezl 4Aff.1
Not daunted, however, by this terrible lack
of material the lst7 and I'd Ohio Infantry
we're organized and dispatched to the seat Of
war at Washington City, their arms being
furnished them at Harrisburg, Penn, as they
passed through that city. ss;7 40 b., .sas,f
y To receive the, volunteers who were coming
into Columbus by companies, Camp jackson
was established and General Cox placed in