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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
they temporarily abandoned the attempt to capture the command. General Cox was with his men to the bitter end. Eleven wounds had not sufficed to retire him from the service. Subsequently he resumed his law practice, and became president of the Chatham railroad. For six years he held the office of solicitor of the metropolitan district; was chairman of the Democratic State executive committee for five years; was delegate for the State-at-large in the national convention of 1876, and in January, 1877, was appointed circuit judge of the Sixth judicial district. This office he resigned to enter Congress, where he served with distinction for six years. Intending to retire from politics, General Cox returned to his estate in Edgecomb and resumed the pursuit of agriculture, and was thus employed when, without his knowledge, his name was agreed upon and he was elected as secretary of the United States Senate, to succeed Gen. Anson G. McCook. This position he has since filled to the enti