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Title: History of the Doles-Cook brigade of northern Virginia, C.S. A.; containing muster roles of each company of the Fourth, Twelfth, Twenty-first and Forty-fourth Georgia regiments, with a short sketch of the services of each member, and a complete history of each regiment, by one of its own members
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Thomas, Henry W. (Henry Walter), b. 1842
Subjects: Georgia Infantry. Doles-Cook brigade Georgia Infantry. 4th Regiment Georgia Infantry. 12th Regiment Georgia Infantry. 21st Regiment Georgia Infantry. 44th Regiment Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. The Franklin printing and publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he had to retire to the rear after the fight. On the 1st day of November, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier-general, since which time he has been identified with, and has bornea conspicuous part in all the battles of Lees army. He renderedsignal and splendid service at Sharpsburg, Gettysburg and Chancel-lorsville, always attracting plaudits by his soldierly bearing on thefield and challenging the admiration of all. 4dc 50 Doles-Cook Brigade. He fell while the elements of (death were raging around him.With a determination to recover a temporary advantage obtained bythe enemy, he rushed to the front like a lion rendered desperate bythe blood and carnage surrounding, threw his slender brigade againstthe foe, and fell as his dev^oted companions drove the yelling enemyback. Thus, while illustrating his native State and while displayingthe highest and noblest attributes of the human soul, he fell in themoment of victory. Such a death, at such a monent, is all that atrue soldier can desire.
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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. A8TOR, LENOX ANDTILOtN FOUNDATIONS. Sketches of Brigade Field and Staff Officers. 51 GENERAL PHILIP COOK. General Cook was born in Twiggs county, Georgia, July 30, 1817.At the age of sixteen he moved to Forsyth, Monroe county, Georgia,and attended school. When nineteen years of age he joined theMonroe Musketeers as a private and enlisted in the Seminole War.This company was one of the five companies that served in that cam-paign from the State of Georgia, and was commanded by CaptainW. A. Black, and after serving three months was mustered out of ser-vice. He then entered Oglethorpe University, where he remainedthree years; he then went to the University of Virginia, and in 1841returned to Forsyth and became the law partner of Zachariah Harmon,solicitor-general of the Flint Circuit. After three years residencethere he moved to Sumter county because of failing health, and en-gaged in farming. He moved to Oglethorpe, Macon county, in 1850,and formed a partner

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