General George Crook

General Crook, born near Dayton, Ohio, September 8^th, 1828, died in Chicago, Illinois, March 21, 1890. General Crook was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1852, and was on duty with the Fourth Infantry in California in 1852-’61. He had risen to a captaincy, when, at the beginning of the Civil War, he returned to the East and became colonel of the Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry. He afterward served in the Western Virginia campaign, in command of the Third Provisional Brigade, from May 1^st to August 15^th, 1862, and was wounded in the action at Lewisburg. He served in Tennessee in 1863, and on July 1^st he was transferred to the command of the Second Cavalry Division. After various actions, ending in the battle of Chickamauga, he pursued Wheeler’s Confederate cavalry and defeated it. He entered upon the command of the Kanawha District, in Western Virginia, in February, 1864; made constant raids and was in numerous actions.

He took part in Sheridan’s Shenandoah campaign, and received the brevet of brigadier general and major general in the United States Army, March 13^th 1865. General Crook had command of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac from March 26^th to April 9^th, during which time he was engaged at Dinwiddie Courthouse, Sailor’s Creek and Farmville, till the surrender at Appomattox.