MCCOOK, Robert Latimer

Affiliation:  Union

Born: December 28 1827, New Lisbon OH

Died: August 6 1862, near Winchester TN

Pre-War Profession: Lawyer

War Service: May 1861 organised 9th Ohio - Col., served in West Virginia, Carnifax Ferry, commanded 3rd Bde/1st Divn/Army of the Ohio at Mill Springs (w), March 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, advance on Corinth, mortally wounded in a skirmish in Tennessee.

Post War: He was shot in a skirmish with the 4th Alabama Cavalry near Huntsville, Alabama in 1862. In agony from a mortal wound in the intestines, he was taken to a nearby house, where he died within 24 hours.