News:
Now in the library; "Genealogy of the Cooke and Cook family". New under the Moments in Time section: my "I Love Me Wall". (purely self-indulgent, I know.)
honoring our relatives that have served this country. This list is "in progress" and by no means comlete. If you feel we've overlooked someone please contact us using the "Suggest" tab on the top of their page.
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While she was never officially in the service and was never compensated, she was a volunteer that served in field hospitals and brought aid and comfort to the wounded.
In 1862 she traveled from Michigan to Alexandria, Virginia to care for her brother Orville, was wounded at the Battle of Chantilly. It was only her intention to help her brother and then return. Upon her arrival she found she was to late that her brother had already passed.
Seeing the suffering of the other solders she resolved to stay and do for them what she would have done for her brother.
Newspapers of the day often referred to her as The "Florence Nightingale of Michigan".
Enlisted in the 160th New York Volunteer Infantry 13 August 1862. He served as a lieutenant for company B and was promoted to captain for company C. He was discharged 14 November 1865 when the regiment was disbanded. He served under General Sheridan during the Shenandoah campaign.
He responded to the Lexington Alarm. He was commissioned Captian in 1775. He was a major under Colonel Jonathan Smith in 1776. On 16 June 1777 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Worcester County Regiment that reinforced General Gates.
Company K 8th Regiment Michigan Infantry. He was mortally wounded on the afternoon of September 1st, at the Battle of Chantilly. He lay on the battle field until the evening of September 5th. At that point had had a limb amputated and was transported to the hospital at Alexandria, Virginia where he died on September 9th.
While on the run from arrest warrants in the United States he served as an officer in the Mexican Revolution. On 15 November 1951 he was posthumously awarded the Mexican Legion of Honor medal. The U.S. Government denied his mother's request for military honors at his burial due to his criminal activity.