(1838 - 1926)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Brigade Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Corps
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
From Pottstown, in April 1861 he was commissioned Captain in the 4th PA (three months) Regiment. On 21 August 1861 he was commissioned Colonel of the Fifty-third Regiment, which he led on the Peninsula campaign.
On the Campaign
He was in command of the 3rd Brigade of the First Division/Second (II) Corps, and was wounded.
The rest of the War
He continued in command of the Brigade at Fredericksburg, and commanded the 4th Brigade at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (wounded), the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor (wounded). In May 1864 he was appointed Brigadier General of Volunteers, and served on court martial duty.
After the War
He continued in career Army service rising to Major General served in the Spanish-American War and retired in 1902. He died in Philadelphia in 1926 at age 88. He was the next-to-last surviving full-rank Union General.
References & notes
Thanks to Mike Snyder for the General's birthplace, and that 'The Brooke family home was on the north bank of the Schuylkill River just upstream from the mouth of Sprogel's Run and less than one-half mile from Pottstown's present eastern boundary'.
Birth
7/21/1838; Pottsgrove Township, PA
Death
9/5/1926; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Arlington National Cemetery , Arlington, Virginia