Brigadier General Robert L. McCook and Colonel Daniel McCook Jr.

<p> The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook and Daniel McCook Jr.--members of a prominent Ohio family known as the Fighting McCooks--drew the full attention of the news media and a war-weary nation. A veteran of Shiloh and Chickamauga Colonel Daniel McCook was mortally wounded while leading his brigade in a reckless assault up Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864 on the orders of his friend and former law partner General William Tecumseh Sherman.</p><p> Brigadier General Robert L. McCook distinguished himself in the western Virginia campaign before he was shot by a Rebel while riding in an ambulance in the summer of 1862. His death in what was an apparent ambush set off a firestorm of outrage throughout the North.</p>