CSA Col John Esten Cooke
Writer John Esten Cooke's grandfather Phillip Pendleton ran a Catholic Girls School in Martinsburg WV called Linden Hill.Sally Myers attended Linden Hall and somehow this impressed John Esten Cooke to write a story about Sally Myers and her father Hunter John Myers.
John Esten Cooke was second in command to CSA General Jeb Stuart.I believe this is mostly because Jeb Stuart was married to Flora Cooke a cousin of John Esten Cooke.
My research has taken me to when General Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men at Chancellorsville.As General Jackson was on the stretcher, he insisted to Major Adams that General Stuart take over.This was out of the chain of command.I am looking for who is Major Adams might be.I believe it was CSA Major James Pickett Adams.
It seems that when General Jackson realized he had gone too far and turned around, he was just inside the lines of the Hampton Battery of Captain Robert Hampton of Pittsburgh.Robert Hampton also died the night of the shooting of Stonewall Jackson and is buried very close to Union General Alexander Hays at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh.General Hays' son was Union Major Gilbert Adams Hays.
I was wondering if anyone knows about this Cooke family?I believe they are all connected to Union General St Georges Cooke.
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L.E. Mathews 6/20/11
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L.E. Mathews 6/20/11
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jim cooke 8/25/11
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Hunter John Myers
Larry Myers 10/10/11
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Hunter John Myers
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