The National tribune., 1906-05-17

| at kenyon college. Ohio, when the war
| began, and after completing his fresh
Co. e, SD Ohi9. He was refused mus
ter because Of his youth, but accom-
panied the regiment to the field as a.
volunteer Aid !, tos the brigade COM
| mander. He was. promoted to a Lieu
| tenancy in the 9Th Ohio Cav. Sept. IL,
1852. and was later assigned to duty
on the staff of Gen. Thomas L. Critten-
den. commanding corps Of the Army
of the Ohio, which subsequently be-
| came the Twehty-flrst Corps of the
Army of the Cumberland. He served
with the troops commanded by Gems.
Smiths invasion or Kentucky, and in
the campaigns of Perryville. Stone
River, Tullahorfla, Chickamauga. Chat
tanooga and Missionary Ridge, with the
Western Armies, and in Gen. Grants
campaign with the Army of the Po-
tomac, from the battle of the Wilder
ness to the crossing of the James River.
He was commissioned Captain and
Aid-de-Camp of United States Volun-
teers in September, 1863, and was brew
cited Major of Volunteers for gallant
and meritorious services In action at
Shady Grove, Va, where he was Sc
verely and dangerously wounded. He
was afterward brevetted Lieutenant
Colonel and Colonel for gallant and
meritorious services in the same cam
paign.
Col. John ]. McCook still survives
the only living member of this noted
family, and is a lawyer engaged inI
active practice in New York City.
The Tribe of John.
In the foregoing I have given a
sketch of Maj, Daniel McCook and hisl
nine sons and we now come to the five
sons of DIR. John McCook In the Union
n rt1oX- t,rin hn no
following sons of Dr. John McCook.
these being cousins of the sons of Maj. |
Dan McCook, above described:
% Maj.-Gen. Edward NJ. McCook,
who at the outbreak of the war was
appointed Major of the I'd Ind. Cav.
Brigader and Major-General and re-
tired with the rank of Lieutenant-Co!-l
onel in the Regular Army at the close
of the civil war He was afterwards
United States Minister to the Sandwich
Islands, and was twice Governor of
Colorado Territory.
CD Brig.-Gen. Anson G. McCook at
the outbreak of the war was a law
student in the office of Edwin M. STAN
ton, at Steubenville, Ohio. and at the
beginning of hostilites he promptly
raised a company of volunteers, and
was elected Captain of this company, |
which was the first company to enter
the service from eastern Ohio. This
company was assigned to the I'd Ohio
and took part in the first battle of
Bull Run. Upon the reorganization of
the three months troops, he was ap-
pointed Major of the I'd Ohio in the
three years service, and rose to the
rank of Colonel. and for time COM
manded a brigade under Gen. Sherman.
At the close of his three years service
he was appointed Colonel of the 194th
Ohio and at the close of the war he
was brevetted Brigadier-General. He
has since served six years in Congress
from the Eighth New York District
(3) Rev. Henry C. McCook, d. D..
was a student at the Western Theo-
logical Seminary Presbyterian). Allie
gheny City, at the outbreak of the civil
war, and was actively engaged in rais-
ing troops for the service until the
first battle of Bull Run, when he en-
listed as a private soldier and was
soon afterward promoted to First Lieu
tenant of the 41st ILL.,, in which posi- |
ton he served until he was promoted
to Chaplain of this regiment.
ca Commander Roderick Sheldon
United States Naval Academy, Annap-
oils in 1859, and during the civil war,
1S61-1S65, he took an active part in |
the aggressive operations before New
Berne, Wilmington, Charleston, Fort
Fisher and in the campaign on the |
JdHItS IklNtE- AT New he pore
an active and successful part in the |
battle on land. He offered himself and |
the services of his marines and had
the honor of receiving the surrender
of Confederate regiment of infantry. |
probably the only surrender of this |
sort, where infantry surrendered to
marines of the navy, during the civil
war. He attained the grade of Com
mander of the United States Navy and |
was retired in 1885.
go John James McCook was a Lieu
tenant of the 1st w. Va, a regiment
recruited almost exclusively from Ohio.
There were so many volunteers from
the Buckeye State" that there was
quite a large overflow and many of it's
citizens entered the service with regi-
ments from other States. Lieut.. John
James McCook was at the battle of
Phillippi, one of the earliest engage
ments of the war.
The Is above-named McCookS COM
prised the Fighting McCooks."
The lapse of years has in a measure
obscured the individual achievements
which make up record astonishing
and glorious, If not absolutely unprece-
dented under any flag at any time in
the history of warfare. The appella-
ton of the Fighting McCooks" is al
most as familiar as his own name to
every American soldier. 1t is a title
which contains not the slightest sug-
gestion of such reckless and violent
propensities as would have tainted the
honor of wearing it, but was conferred
by popular acclaim upon men of peace
ful but heroic strain, who simply
could not resist their country's call for
sons who loved her well enough to die
proudly and gratefully in her defense
The mists OF time have enveloped those
fields of valor and sacrifice, but the
thought of such race of patriots will
always touch the heart and stir the
blood of every one who is fit to be an
American citizen.