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Cooke, Philip St. George

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Cooke, Philip St. George (1809–95), uncle of John Esten Cooke and Philip P. Cooke, was a military leader in the West and in the Mexican War, and served on the Union side in the Civil War, although others of his family were prominent in the Confederate army. He became a major general (1865). His early experiences form the basis of Scenes and Adventures in the Army (1857) and Conquest of New Mexico and California (1878).

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