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The patriarch of the “tribe of Dan” rasied his family in Carrollton, Ohio, became a lawyer and judge in Washington D.C., then became drawn into the war along with eight sons, five nephews, and his brother, all collectively known as “The Fighting McCooks.”
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Brigadier General Daniel McCook Jr died during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia in 1864. His commanding officer, General William T. Sherman, had been his law partner before the war.
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Charles McCook was supposed to start at Kenyon College the fall of 1861. Instead, he joined the Army and died during the First Battle of Bull Run that summer.
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The youngest McCook, John James II, tried to run away from Kenyon Grammar School to join the Army when he was 16. Finally allowed to join as he neared 18, he moved up to the rank of captain, and returned to graduate from Kenyon College in 1866.
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The 1837 house where the McCooks were raised is today a museum in Carrollton, Ohio, open in the summer for tours.
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The president of Kenyon College, Lorin Andrews was the first man in Ohio to volunteer to go to war. Alas, the war’s silent killer—disease—took Andrews before he ever saw battle.
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Edwin Stanton served as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War. He was an alumnus of Kenyon College and a close friend of the McCook family.
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General Thomas J. Jackson refused to retreat during the Battle of Bull Run, earning him the famous nickname “Stonewall.” Jackson’s rally inspired the southern counterattack that smashed the Union forces and drove them from the field.
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This chromolithograph from the 1880s depicts the First Battle of Bull Run. It was expected to be an easy Union victory. Instead, it turned into a devastating rout.
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