★ ★ Crook, George

George Crook​

Born: September 8, 1828

Birthplace: Taylorsville, Ohio

Father: Thomas Crook 1788 – 1875

(Buried: Bethel Cemetery, Phoneton, Ohio)​

Mother: Elizabeth Matthews 1787 – 1844

(Buried: Bethel Cemetery, Phoneton, Ohio)​

Wife: Mary Tapscott Dailey 1842 – 1895

(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)​

Education:

1852: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (38th​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1852 – 1853: Brevet 2nd​ Lt. United States Army, 4th​ Infantry Regiment​

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1852: Garrison Duty at Fort Columbus, New York​

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1852: Frontier Duty at Benicia California​

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1853: Frontier Duty at Fort Humboldt, California​

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1853 – 1856: 2nd​ Lt. United States Army, 4th​ Infantry Regiment​

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1853 – 1855: Frontier Duty at Fort Jones, California​

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1855: Escort for Topographical Party​

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1855 – 1856: Frontier Duty at Fort Jones, California​

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1856: Served in the Rogue River Expedition​

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1856 – 1857: Frontier Duty at Fort Jones, California​

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1856 – 1861: 1st​ Lt. United States Army, 4th​ Infantry Regiment​

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1857: Commander of Pitt River Expedition​

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1857: Wounded in the Pitt River Expedition​

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1857 – 1858: Frontier Duty at Fort Ter – Waw, California​

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1858: Served in the march to Vancouver, Washington​

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1858: Served in the Yakima Expedition​

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1858 – 1861: Frontier Duty at Fort Ter – Waw, California​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1866: Captain, United States Army 4th​ Infantry Regiment​

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1861 – 1862: Colonel of 36th​ Ohio Infantry Regiment​

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1861 – 1862: Served in Western Virginia​

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1861 – 1862: Served at Summerville​

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1862: Commander of 3rd​ Provisional Army Brigade at Lewisburg​

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1862: Wounded at the fighting at Lewisburg​

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1862: Brevetted Major for Gallantry at Battle of Lewisburg​

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1862: Served in the Northern Virginia Campaign​

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1862 – 1864: Brigadier General of Union Army, Volunteers​

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1862: Served in the Battle of South Mountain, and Antietam​

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1862: Brevetted Lt. Colonel for Gallantry at Battle of Antietam​

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1862 – 1863: Served in the Union Army Operations in West Virginia​

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1863: Independent Division Commander at Carthage, Tennessee​

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1863: Commander of 2nd​ Cavalry Division Command at Tullahoma​

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1863: Served in the Battle of Chickamuga, Georgia​

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1863: Served in Pursuit of Confederate General Joseph Wheeler​

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1863: Successful Union Commander at Battle of Farmington, Tennessee​

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1863: Brevetted Colonel for Gallantry at Battle of Farmington, Tennessee​

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1863: Served against Guerrillas from Shelbyville, Tennessee, to Rome, Georgia​

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1864: Union Army Commander, Kanawha District​

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1864: Served in the raid on the Tennessee, and Virginia Railroad​

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1864: Successful Union Commander at Battle of Cloyd's Mountain​

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1864: Served in the Action at New River Bridge​

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1864: Union Army Commander of Lynchburg, Virginia Raid​

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1864: Served in the Battle of Lynchburg, Virginia​

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1864: Commander of Union Army troops, Department of West Virginia​

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1864: Brevetted Major General for his service in West Virginia​

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1864: Union Army Commander 2nd​ Battle of Kernstown, Virginia​

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1864 – 1865: Union Army Commander, Department of West Virginia​

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1864 – 1866: Major General of Union Army Volunteers​

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1864: Served in the Battle of Cedar Creek​

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1865: Captured at Cumberland Maryland on February 21st​​

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1865: Cavalry Commander, Army of the Potomac

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1865: Brevetted Brig. General, U.S. Army, for service in West Virginia​

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1865: Brevetted Major General, U.S. Army, for role at Fisher's Hill​

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1865: Served in the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia​

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1865: Served in the Battle of Sailor's Creek, Virginia​

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1865: Served in the Capitulation of Appomattox Court House, Virginia​

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1865 – 1866: Union Army Commander of Wilmington, North Carolina​

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1866: Mustered out of the Union Army on January 15th​​

Occupation after War:

1861 – 1866: Captain, United States Army 4th​ Infantry Regiment​

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1866: Major, United States Army, 3rd​ Infantry Regiment​

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1866 – 1873: Lt. Colonel, United States Army, 23rd​ Infantry Regiment​

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1866 – 1867: U.S. Army, Commander of District of Boise, Idaho​

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1866 – 1867: Served in Expedition against the Snake Indians​

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1867: U.S. Army Commander of District of Owyhee, Idaho​

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1867: Served against the Piutes, and Pitt Indians, at Infernal caverns​

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1868: U.S. Army Commander, District of the Lakes​

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1868 – 1870: U.S. Army Commander, Department of Columbia​

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1870 – 1871: Member of U.S. Army, Retiring Board at San Francisco​

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1871 – 1875: U.S. Army Commander, Department of Arizona​

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1873 – 1888: Brigadier General in United States Army​

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1875 – 1882: U.S. Army Commander, Department of the Platte​

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1876 – 1877: Served in the field on the Big Horn Expedition​

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1882 – 1886: U.S. Army Commander, Department of Arizona​

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1888 – 1890: Major General in United States Army​

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1888 – 1890: U.S. Army Commander, Division of the Missouri​

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1888 – 1890: Member of U.S. Army, Military Prison Board​

Died: March 21, 1890

Place of Death: Chicago, Illinois

Cause of Death: Gastric catarrh and heart failure

Age at time of Death: 61 years old

Burial Place: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

 

[Pollaco]

Hia capture at Cumberland, Maryland was by Confederate partisan leader Jesse McNeill, who routed Crook from his sleep for a long ride to Libby Prison. The owner of the hotel he was staying at during his capture belonged to his future father-in-law and one of his captors was a future brother-in-law.

 

[John Hartwell]

[Pittsburg Dispatch, 22March 1890]​

 

[Pollaco]

That wound he received in 1857 was by a Indian arrow.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday (September 8th) week to Major General George Crook! Salutes remembering General Crook on his birthday week.

 

[Pollaco]

The Apache Indians nicknamed Crook Nantan Lupan which meant Chief Wolf.

 

[Pollaco]

He was promoted Brigadier just 10 days before Antietam.

 

[Pollaco]

He is said to have developed a lifelong friendship with Col. Rutherford B. Hayes in 1862.Hayes named one of his sons George Crook Hayes.

 

[Pollaco]

Red Cloud, a war chief of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, said of Crook
"He, at least, never lied to us. His words gave us hope."

 

[USS ALASKA]

Anniversary Bump

Birthday

08 Sept 1829

George Crook (d.1890), Major General (Union volunteers), was born.

Journal Article
Major General George Crook
Emily C.R. George
On Point
Vol. 22, No. 3 (Winter 2017), pp. 23-27
Army Historical Foundation

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26295980

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