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JACOB DOLSON COX (1828-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 353 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JACOB DOLSON See also:COX (1828-1900)  , See also:American See also:general, See also:political See also:leader and educationalist, was See also:born on the 27th of See also:October 1828 in See also:Montreal, See also:Canada, His See also:father, a shipbuilder of See also:German descent (See also:Koch) ,and his See also:mother,a descendant of See also:William See also:Brewster, were natives of New See also:York See also:City, where the boy See also:grew up, studying See also:law in an See also:office in 1842—1844, and working in a See also:broker's office in 1844-1846, and where, under the See also:influence of See also:Charles G . Finney (1792-1875), whose daughter he afterwards married, he prepared himself for the See also:ministry . He graduated at See also:Oberlin See also:College in 1851, having in the meantime given up his theological studies in See also:rebellion at Finney's dogmatism . In 1851-1853 he was See also:superintendent of See also:schools at See also:Warren, See also:Ohio; in 1853 was admitted to the Ohio be:, being at that See also:time an See also:anti-See also:slavery Whig; and in 1859 was elected to the See also:state See also:senate, in which with See also:Garfield and See also:James See also:Monroe (1821—1898) he formed the "See also:Radical Triumvirate," See also:Cox himself presenting a See also:petition for a See also:personal See also:liberty law and urging woman's rights, especially larger See also:property rights to married See also:women . Appointed by See also:Governor Dennison one of three brigadiers-general of See also:militia in 186o, he eagerly undertook the study of See also:tactics, See also:strategy and military See also:history . He rendered See also:great assistance in raising troops for the See also:Union service in 1861, enlisted himself in spite of poor See also:health and a See also:family of six small See also:children, and in See also:April was commissioned a brigadier-general, U.S.V . He took See also:part in the See also:West See also:Virginia See also:campaign of 1861, served in the Kanawha region, in supreme command after See also:Rosecrans's See also:relief in the See also:spring, until See also:August 1862, when his troops were ordered to join See also:Burnside's 9th See also:Corps in Virginia . After the See also:death at his See also:side of General See also:Reno in the See also:battle of See also:South See also:Mountain, and during See also:Antietam, Cox commanded the corps, and at the See also:close of the campaign (6th Oct . 1862) he was appointed See also:major-general, U.S.V., but the See also:appointment was not confirmed . In April-See also:December 1863 he was See also:head of the See also:department of Ohio . In 1864 he took part in the See also:Atlanta campaign under See also:Sherman, as a divisional and subsequently corps-See also:commander: at the battle of See also:Franklin he commanded the 23rd Corps, and he served at See also:Nashville also . He led an expedition following Sherman into the Carolinas and fought two successful actions with See also:Bragg at Kinston, N.C .

He was governor of Ohio in 1866-1867, and as such advocated the colonization of the freedmen in a restricted See also:

area, and sympathized with See also:President See also:Johnson's See also:programme of Reconstruction and worked for a See also:compromise between Johnson and his opponents, although he finally deserted Johnson . In r868 he was chairman of the Republican See also:national See also:convention which nominated See also:Grant . He was secretary of the interior in 1869-187o; opposed the See also:confirmation of the treaty for the See also:annexation of Santo Domingo, negotiated by O . E . Babcock and urged by President Grant; introduced the merit See also:system in his department, and resigned in October 187o because of pressure put on him by, politicians piqued at his See also:prohibition of campaign levies on his clerks, and because of the interference of Grant in favour of William McGarrahan's See also:attempt by legal proceedings to obtain from Cox a patent to certain See also:California See also:mining lands . He took up legal practice in See also:Cincinnati, became president in 1873, and until 1877 was See also:receiver, of the See also:Toledo & See also:Wabash & Western . In 1877-1879 he was a representative in See also:Congress . From 1881 to 1897 he was See also:dean of the Cincinnati law school, and from 1885 to 1889 president of the University of Cincinnati . He died at See also:Magnolia, See also:Massachusetts, on the 4th of August 1900 . A successful lawyer, and in his later years a prominent microscopist, who won a See also:gold See also:medal of See also:honour for microphotography at the See also:Antwerp Exposition of 1891, he is best known as one of the greatest " civilian " generals of the See also:Civil See also:War, and, with the possible exception of J . C . See also:Ropes, the highest American authority of his time on military history, particularly the history of the American Civil War .

He wrote Atlanta (New York, 1882) and The See also:

March to the See also:Sea, Franklin and Nashville (New York, 1882), both in the See also:series See also:Campaigns of the Civil War; The Second Battle of See also:Bull Run, as Connected with the Fitz-See also:John See also:Porter See also:Case (Cincinnati, 1882); and the valuable Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (2 vols., New York, 1900) published posthumously . See J . R . See also:Ewing, Public Services of See also:Jacob Dolson Cox (See also:Washington, 1902), a Johns See also:Hopkins University dissertation; and W . C . Cochran, " See also:Early See also:Life and Military Services of General Jacob Dolson Cox," in Bibliotheca Sacra, vol . 58 (Oberlin, Ohio, 1901) .

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