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J.B. Cook
(1839 - 1892)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 22 year old mill overseer and lived with his widowed mother and 2 younger siblings in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, ME. He mustered as Sergeant, Company K, First Maine Infantry on 3 May 1861 for three months, and mustered out in Portland on 5 August. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company K, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861 and promoted to Captain of Company I on 1 November.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
In January 1864 he was commissioned Major, 22nd US Colored troops and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, 5th US Colored Troops on 21 October 1864. He mustered out with them on 20 September 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was in the machinery (?) business in Carroll, IA. He was active in the Grand Army of the Republic in Iowa and served a term as Department Commander.
References & notes
Antietam casualty information from Hyde.1. His service from the Maine Adjutant General2 and the Official Army Register.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1880, and his death notice in the GAR's Journal of the 19th Annual Encampment, Department of Iowa (1893). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
He married Viola Soule (1852-1930) and they had 5 children between 1873 and about 1890.
Birth
12/30/1839 in CT
Death
10/1892; Chicago, IL; burial in Carroll City Cemetery, Carroll, IA
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6680]
2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 189 [AotW citation 20818]
3 US Army, Adjutant General, Official Army Register of the Volunteer Forces, U. S. Army, 8 vols., Washington, DC: Adjutant General's Office, 1867, VOl. 1, pg. 23; Vol. 8, pp. 174, 193 [AotW citation 20819]