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J. R. Cooke
(1833 - 1891)
Home State: North Carolina
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1855 he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th United States Infantry. In early 1861 he was First Lieutenan (unit?), and saw action at First Manassas in July. On 5 August he was appointed Captain of the Stafford (NC) Light Artillery. On 24 April 1862 he was elected Colonel of the 27th North Carolina Infantry and led them at Seven Pines, where he was wounded.
On the Campaign
He led the regiment in Maryland.
The rest of the War
On 1 November 1862 he was appointed Brigadier General, with a brigade in Ransom's Division, and led them in combat at Fredericksburg, Bristoe Station (wounded), and the Wilderness (wounded), VA. His Brigade was part of Heth's Division at Petersburg and to Appomattox.
After the War
He was a merchant in Richmmond, VA and he co-founded the Confederate Soldiers' Home there.
References & notes
Service details from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His photograph from a cabinet card offered for sale in 2014 by Heritage Auctions.
He was the son of US General Philip St. George Cooke and brother-in-law of J. E. B. Stuart.
Birth
1833
Death
1891
1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 30413]