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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cooke , Philip St. George -1895 (search)
Cooke, Philip St. George -1895
Military officer; born near Leesburg, Va., June 13, 1809; graduated at West Point in 1827.
He served in the war against Mexico, and late in 1861 was made brigadiergeneral of volunteers.
He had seen much service in wars with the Indians, commanded in Kansas during the troubles there, and took part in the Utah expedition in 1858.
He commanded all the regular cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, and was distinguished in the campaign on the Peninsula in 1862.
He was retired with the rank of brevet major-general, in 1873, and died in Detroit, Mich., March 20, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coronado , Francisco Vasquez de 1510 -1542 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crime against Kansas , the (search)
Crime against Kansas, the
See Kansas.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Debtors. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Divorce laws. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dorsey , James Owen , 1848 - (search)
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-
Ethnologist; born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 31, 1848; studied at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, and became a Protestant Episcopal missionary to the Ponka Indians in Dakota.
He was ethnologist to the United States Geological Survey, and a member of the ethnological bureau in the Smithsonian.
His publications include Osage War customs; Kansas mourning and War customs; Omaha Sociology; Siouan migrations, etc. He died Feb. 4, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas , Stephen Arnold , 1813 -1861 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dwight , Theodore , 1764 -1846 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Elective franchise. (search)