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| COOK, Britton J. (1830 - Present) |
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Britton Cook was a Corporal in Company E, 4th Regiment of West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Union Army. From a rough transcription of a Muster Roll and Pay Roll dated December 31, 1862, the 4th Infantry was organized at Mason City, Virginia (after 1863 West Virginia) in the summer of 1861.  According to Boyd B. Stutler in WEST VIRGINIA IN THE CIVIL WAR, Company E was recruited inRacine, Pomeroy, and Syracuse, Ohio, and crossed the Ohio River as an organized infantry unit to join the new regiment.
The 4th was a very active and far-ranging outfit during the War, participated prominently in the siege and capture of Vicksburg in 1863, andsuffered heavy losses in that and subsequent campaigns. Again according to Stutler, by December 1864 the 4th regiment was so depleted that it lost its identity when consolidated with another unit. Stutler mentions that Corporal Britton Cook lost his life at Vicksburg. In the book "Loyal West Virginia 1861-1865", Theodore Lang writes: "About the 10th of May, the Fourth, under command of Colonel Dayton, received orders to march to the front with General Lightburn's brigade, Blair's division, 15th Army Corps. On May 19th, the memorable assault on Vicksburg occurred. The Fourth Regiment was placed in the advance of Lightburn's brigade and charged the enemy's works. A few men scaled the parapet, among them Capt. Finley D. Ong, of Company F, and Britton Cook, a corporal of Company E,who entered the Confederate works; they were wounded and taken prisoners and died in the enemy's hands."
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