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Cooke, Philip St. George -1895

Military officer; born near Leesburg, Va., June 13, [364] 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 and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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