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at the unveiling of the equestrian statue, May 29th, 1890, and to his ability for organization and to his ardent presence was materially due the felicitous success of each of these reverential manifestations.
He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Historical Society, and held enshrined in his heart its every interest.
He was an earnest, consistent Christian, and active in the cause of his church and of suffering humanity.
Whatever he did, he did worthily and well, with his whole heart and being.
John Rogers Cooke was born to a soldier's heritage, of parents of Virginian birth, at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, June 10th, 1833.
He was the son of General Philip St. George Cooke, a native of Frederick county, Virginia, and a distinguished officer of the United States Army, who is still alive.
John Rogers Cooke was graduated from Harvard University as a civil engineer in 1854.
He served as an engineer for a time on the Iron-Mountain railroad, in Missouri, and distinction in the profession seemed before him. Hereditary instinct, however, stimulated by his environment, asserted itself, and he sought and received the appointment of lieutenant in the United States Army in the latter part of 1854.
At the beginning of hostilities between the States he had attained the rank of first lieutenant in the Eighth infantry, and was stationed on the San Pedro river, in Arizona.
Upon the secession of Virginia, Lieutenant Cook resigned his commission, and, severing tender family ties, offered his sword to his mother State.
He was commissioned first lieutenant Confederate States Army, and ordered to report to General T. H. Holmes at Fredericksburg, Va. He participated in the first battle of Manassas with troops from Aquia Creek.
He soon after raised a company of light artillery, and with his command did gallant service on the Potomac.
In February, 1862, he was promoted major of artillery, and ordered to North Carolina as chief of artillery in that department.
In April, 1862, he was elected colonel of the Twenty-seventh North Carolina infantry, which was ordered to Virginia and attached to the division of A. P. Hill.
Throughout the campaign of 1862 he led his regiment with great skill and gallantry, and at the battle of Sharpsburg won the admiration of the entire army.
When ordered to hold a certain portion of the line at all hazards, he replied that although his ammunition was exhausted he would stay where he was as long as he had a man or a bayonet left.
His pledge was vindicated.
In the engagement, with other casualties in the rank and file, eighteen
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Southern Historical Society
Papers.
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Memorial services in
Memphis
Tenn.
,
March
31
,
1891
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New Orleans, Louisana.
chapter 9
General
P.
R.
Cleburne
. Dedication of a monument to his memory at
Helena, Arkansas
,
May
10th
,
1891
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chapter 11chapter 12
The women of the
South
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chapter 14
General
Burkett
Davenport
Fry
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United Confederate
Veterans
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chapter 17chapter 18
General
John
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Cooke
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chapter 20chapter 21
General
Junius
Daniel
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an Address delivered before the
Ladies
' Memorial Association, in
Raleigh
, N. C,
May
10th
,
1888
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The
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: its origin and history.
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General
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E.
Lee
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Lucy
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chapter 30chapter 31
Monument to the
Confederate
dead at
Fredericksburg, Virginia
, unveiled
June
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1891
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chapter 33chapter 34
Escape of prisoners from
Johnson's Island
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chapter 36
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Helena, Arkansas
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May
10th
,
1891
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Monument to the
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dead at
Fredericksburg, Virginia
, unveiled
June
10
,
1891
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