Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-04-23

nobility has its leanings for war, gov.
eminent or science. But in America
war is an accident and soldering not q
profession, but = duty. Those were
worthy sons of heroic sires who took
down the swords Of Nathaniel Greene
and Light Horse Harry Lee when DIES.
tiny sent forth the cry ITO arms, ye
bravei''
1t was to be expected that in the
south, where the social order is aristo.
cratic, great families would become dis.
tinguished in the civil war. But to a
middle class family Of the north, the
Scotch Irish McCooks of Ohio, belongs
the honor of giving to the service the
greatest number of closely related sol.
diers recorded in the annals of any
American war. Two brothers, John and
Daniel, natives of Cannonsburg, Pa,
living in Ohio when the war broke out,
sent ID sons to the war whose records
are known, and served themselves to
the best of their ability. Daniel was
killed at the age Of So and three of his
eight soldier sous died by the hands of
the enemy. John and his five soldier
sons survived the war.
Living as they did among people
given to the use of Bible types, it was
natural that these McCooks should be
divided by the popular voice into the
tribe Of Dan and the tribe of John. :"
Taken together the war history of these
fighting tribes is remarkable. Four of
the eight sons of the tribe of Dan
reached the rank of general and two of
the tribe of John. Two of the tribe of
Dan had been trained to the profession
Of arms and one of the tribe of John.
No doubt this fact had much to do with
determining the fates of the others when
the country was called to arms. In that
crisis brother emulated brother and cous-
in. The glory of the name must be
sustained and just as the blood of an
Ellsworth stirred the spirit of venge-
ance so tho death of one of family
made soldiers out of every true man of
his tribe. AT the first battle of Bull Run
Daniel saw his second youngest boy, a
youth of IS, shot down. What son re-
manning could withstand the mute APP
peal Of that fathers tears while he
spoke of the hour when the blood of his
blood was poured out for the flag?
The tidings of the death of Charles
Morriss McCook, who served us private
i'll the Second Ohio, reached the ears of
Daniel, Jr., ut Leavenworth, Kan,
where he was practioing law. With a
volunteer company which he had drilled
he took the field in Kansas regiment
and fought under the heroic Lyon at
Wilson's Creek, the first pitched battle
of the west. At Shiloh he was chief of
staff OF the Army of the Ohio when it
saved the day for Grant. In the subse-
quent battles of the west he served as
colonel and brigadier general until the
hour of his most glorious death on the
slopes of Kenesaw. Sherman selected
him to lead in that grand but useless
assault and at the first dash his brigade
followed him to the Confederate works.
Two of his regiments, the One Hundred
and Twenty fifth and Eighty sixth Hi
nois, met with the severest regimental
loss in the three divisions which took
part in the assault While waiting for
the signal to charge Colonel McCook re-
peated to his men the first stanza from
Macaulay's poem, "Horatius at the
Bridge"
Oh, how can men die better
Than taClng fearful odds
For the ushcs of their fathers