The National tribune., 1906-05-17

student of law in the Office of Edwin
NJ. Stanton, at Steubenville, Ohio, and
was later partner in the practice of
law with Judge George B. Stallo, in
| Cincinnati, where he had a large prac-
| tice. When the news reached Cincin-
natl that Fort Sumter had been fired
upon, Bob McCook organized a regi-
ment of 1000 men among the German
population of Cincinnati in two days,
and was commissioned Colonel of this
regiment, famous as the 9Th Ohio. His
regiment participated in the campaign
| in West Virginia during the early part
of the war, and he commanded a bri-
gade under Gen. George B. Mcclellan.
| His brigade was then transferred to
the Army of the Ohio, and took an
active part in the battle of Mill
Springs, where Gen. Bob McCook was
severely wounded. He rejoined his bri-
gade before his wound had healed, and
continued to command 1t when he was
unable to mount a horse. His extra
ordinary sOldierly qualities procured
him the rank of Brigadier-Generala and
| the command of division. He met
| his death Aug. 6, 1862, while on the
march near Salem, Ala. He had been
| completely prostrated by his open
wound and a severe attack of dysen-
terry, and was lying in an ambulance,
which was driven along in an interval
between two regiments of his division.
| A small band of guerrillas, commanded
| by Frank Gurley, dashed out of am
| bush and surrounded the ambulance
and discovered that it contained an Of
/ ficer of high rank, who was lying on
| the bed, undressed and unable to rise.
| Seeing that the Federal troops were ap-
| preaching, these guerrillas shot and
killed Gen. Bob McCook as he lay help
| less, and made good their escape. This
! brutal assassination of Gen. McCook
aroused intense feeling throughout the
| country. The murdered commander
was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery,
Cincinnati, and his devoted soldiers
and friends, at the close of the civil
var. erected monument to his mem
ory in Washington Park, Cincinnati.
| 60 Maj.-Gen. Alexander Mcdowell
/ McCook. This distinguished soldier en-
! tered the United States Military Acad-
| emy at West Point, and graduated in
the class of 1852, serving for a time
: on the Western frontier in the cam
i paign against the Indians, and he was
| then transferred to West Point as an
! instructor. At the opening of the civil
war he was made Colonel of the 1st
Ohio, which he led among the very
\ earliest troops TO the relief of the Cap
ital City OF Washington. After this he
| was engaged in the first battle of Bull
| Run, where his regiment, with the I'd
Ohio, acted as the rear guard of the
defeated forces. He was made a Briga-
/ dier-General IN September, 1861, and
commanded a division under Gen. Buell.
in the Army of the Ohio. He was made
a Major-General for distinguished ser
vices at the battle of Shiloh, and was
placed in command of the Twentieth
| Corps, forming the right wing of the
| Army of the Cumberland. He served
| with this command during the cam
paigns at Perryville, Stone River, Tul-
| lahoma and Chickamauga, and subse-
quently commanded one of the trans
Mississippi Departments. He represent
| ed the United States at the coronation
| of the Car of Russia In 1896. He died
June IL, 1903.
co Brig.-Gen. Daniel McCook, Jr
At the outbreak of the civil war Dan
| McCook, Jr., was practicing law in
Leavenworth, Kan, where he was In
! partnership with William Tecunseh
Sherman and Thomas Ewing. Each o:
these distinguished partners dropped