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See also:MCCOOK, See also:ALEXANDER MCDOWELL (1831-1903) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in Columbiana See also:county, See also:Ohio, on the 22nd of See also:April 1831. He graduated at the U. S. military See also:academy in 1852, served against the Apaches and Utes in New See also:Mexico in 1853-57, was assistant instructor of See also:infantry See also:tactics at the military academy in 1858-1861, and in April 1861 became See also:colonel of the 1st Ohio See also:Volunteers. He served in the first See also:battle of See also:Bull Run; commanded a See also:brigade in See also:Kentucky in the See also:winter of 1861, a See also:division in See also:Tennessee and See also:Mississippi See also:early in 1862, and the 1st See also:Corps in Kentucky in See also:October of the same See also:year; was in command of See also:Nashville in See also:November and See also:December of that year; and was then engaged in Tennessee until after the battle of Chickamauga, after which he saw no active service at the front during the See also:Civil See also:War. He was promoted to be brigadier-See also:general of volunteers in See also:September 1861, and to be See also:major-general of volunteers in See also:July 1862, earned the See also:brevet of See also:lieutenant-colonel in the See also:regular See also:army at the See also:capture of Nashville, Tennessee,that of colonel at See also:Shiloh, and that of brigadier-general at See also:Perryville, and in See also:March 1865 was breveted major-general for his services during the war. In See also:February-May 1865 he commanded the See also:district of Eastern See also:Arkansas. He. resigned from the volunteer service in October 1865, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 26th Infantry in March 1867, served in See also:Texas, mostly in See also:garrison See also:duty, until 1874, and in 1886-1890 (except for brief terms of See also:absence) commanded Fort See also:Leaven-See also:worth, See also:Kansas, and the infantry and See also:cavalry school there. He became a brigadier-general in 1890, and a major-general in 1894; retired in 1895; and in 1898-1899 served on a See also:commission to investigate the See also:United States See also:department of war as administered during the war with See also:Spain.
His See also:father, See also:DANIEL MCCOOK (1798-1863), killed at Buffing-ton's See also:Island during General See also:John H. See also:Morgan's See also:raid in Ohio, and seven of his eight See also:brothers (three of whom were killed in battle) all served in the Civil War; this See also:family and that of JOHN McCooE (1806-1865), Daniel's See also:brother, a physician, who served as a volunteer surgeon in the Civil War, are known as the " fighting McCooks "—four of John's sons served in the See also:Union army and one in the Union See also:navy.
End of Article: MCCOOK, ALEXANDER MCDOWELL (1831-1903)
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