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Brig. Gen. Robert Latimer McCook, Esq.
Facts and Events
| Name |
Brig. Gen. Robert Latimer McCook, Esq. |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
28 Dec 1827 |
Lisbon, Columbiana, Ohio, United States |
| Military[3] |
Jan 1862 |
Kentucky, United Statesseverely wounded in Battle of Mill Springs |
| Military[3] |
21 Mar 1862 |
promoted to Brigadier General while recovering from injury |
| Military[1][3] |
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Col., 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the 1st German Ohio Regiment |
| Death[1] |
6 Aug 1862 |
Decherd, Franklin, Tennessee, United Statesage 35 - shot by rebel soldiers while lying wounded in an ambulance near Salem, AL; taken to a home near Decherd where he died |
| Burial[2] |
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Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United StatesPlot: Garden LN Section 10, Lot 1 space 001 |
| Reference Number? |
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Q7346724? |
Robert Latimer McCook was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War who was killed by Confederate partisans in Alabama.
Research Notes and Links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robert Latimer McCook, in Howe, Henry. Historical collections of Ohio in two volumes: an encyclopedia of the state, history both general and local, geography with descriptions of its counties, cities and villages, its agricultural, manufacturing, mining and business devolopment, sketches of eminent and interesting characters, etc., with notes of a tour over it in 1886. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Published by the state of Ohio, 1907)
I:367.
4. Robert Latimer McCook, born at New Lisbon, Ohio, December 28, 1827. He studied law in the office of Stanton & McCook, at Steubenville, then removed to Cincinnati, and in connection with Judge J.B. Stallo secured a large practice. When the news reached Cincinnati that Fort Sumter had been fired upon he organized and was commissioned colonel of the Ninth Ohio regiment, among the Germans, enlisting a thousand men in less than two days. He was ordered to West Virginia, put in command of a brigade, and made the decisive campaign there under McCleelan. His brigade was then transferred to the Army of the Ohio, and took a most active part in the battle of Mills Spring, in Kentucky, where he was severely wounded. The rebel forces were driven from their lines by a bayonet charge of Gen. McCook's brigade and so closely pursued that their organization as an army was completely destroyed. Gen. McCook rejoined his brigade before his wound had healed, and continued to command it when he was unable to mount a horse. His remarkable soldierly qualities procured him the rank of major-general and command of a division.
He met his death August 6, 1862, while on the march near Salem, Alabama. He had been completely prostrated by his open would and a sever attack of dysentery, and was lying in an ambulance which was driven along in the interval between two regiments of his division. A small band of mounted local guerillas, commanded by Frank Gurley, dashed out of ambush, surrounded the ambulance, and discovered that it contained an officer of rank, who was lying on the bed undressed and unable to rise. They asked who it was, and seeing that the Federal troops were approaching, shot him as he lay and made their escape, as the nature of the country and their thorough familiarity with it easily enabled them to do. This brutal assassination of Gen. McCook aroused intense feeling throughout the country. The murdered commander was buried at Spring Grove cemetery, and his devoted soldiers and friends, at the close of the war, erected a monument to his memory in Cincinnati. ...
- ↑ Gen Robert Latimer McCook, in Find A Grave.
[Includes monument photos]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Robert Latimer McCook, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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Title McCook family papers, 1809-1966
Span Dates 1809-1966
Bulk Dates (bulk 1850-1900)
ID No. MSS31963
Creator McCook family
Extent 6,500 items ; 19 containers plus 5 oversize ; 7.6 linear feet ; 1 microfilm reel
Language Collection material in English
Location Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary Correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs, memorabilia, printed materials, and other papers relating to the Ohio family of "Fighting McCooks" that became prominent through the service of fifteen of its sons in the Civil War. The McCooks were active in legal and military affairs and in national and state politics in Ohio and New York. The larger part of the collection concerns the military and political career of Anson G. McCook (1835-1917).
Finding Aid Permalink Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012155
LCCN Permalink LC Online Catalog record for this collection: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78031963
Scope and Content Note
The papers of the McCook family span the years 1809-1966, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1850-1900. The collection relates to the Ohio family of “Fighting McCooks” that became prominent through the service of fifteen of its sons in the Civil War, seven of whom rose to the rank of general. Daniel McCook and his three sons, Robert, Daniel Jr., and Charles Morris, died of wounds received in action.
The larger part of the collections relates to the military and political career of Anson G. McCook (1835-1917), congressman from New York, 1877-1883; secretary of the U.S. Senate, 1883-1893; Union Army officer; and father of Katharine McCook Knox, the donor of the main body of the papers. The correspondence, principally 1830-1957, includes letters from Presidents Grover Cleveland, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Birchford Hayes, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), as well as from correspondents such as Cornelius Newton Bliss, Robley D. Evans, Hamilton Fish, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Thomas Nelson Page, Elihu Root, William T. Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, and Mark Twain. Other material consists of scrapbooks, journals and diaries, photographs, printed matter, invitations, autograph albums, other memorabilia, and miscellany.
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