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Jacob Dolson Cox

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in Montreal, Canada

October 27, 1828

Died

August 04, 1900

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Cox was born in Montreal, Canada, to American parents, Jacob Dolson Cox and Thedia Redelia Kenyon Cox. Cox married Helen Clarissa Finney, whom he met at Oberlin College in Ohio.

He became superintendent of the Warren, Ohio, school system as he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853. As a strong abolitionist, in 1855 he helped to organize the Republican Party in Ohio and stumped for its candidates in counties surrounding Warren. He entered the Ohio State Senate in 1860 and formed a political alliance with Senator and future President James A. Garfield, and with Governor Salmon P. Chase. While in the legislature, he accepted a commission with the Ohio Militia as a brigadier general and spent much of the winter of 1860–61 studying mili ...more

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	Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherman's Battle For Atlanta 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1882 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1900 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherman's March To The Sea: Hood’s Tennessee Campaign and the Carolina Campaigns of 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox, Brooks D. Simpson (Introduction) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battle of Franklin 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1983 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (Vol.1&2): An Autobiographical Account by a General of the Union Army (Complete Edition) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antietam: Military Accounts of the Bloodiest Battle in American History by Jacob Dolson Cox, Edward Porter Alexander, James Longstreet liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	March to the Sea Franklin and Nashville 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1882 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Tide Rising: A memoir of the Union Army in North Carolina by Jacob Dolson Cox, Jack E. Fryar (Editor), Jr. (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864. A monograph it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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