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Jacob Dolson Cox

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Born: October 26 1828

Died: 0303 08 19001900

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 military science.

After Cox fought in the Civil War he became the Governor of Ohio from 1866-1867. He was appointed Secretary of the Interior by Ulysses S. Grant upon his inauguration in March 1869, serving until November 1870.

During his later years, Cox was a prolific author. His works include Atlanta ; The March to the Sea: Franklin and Nashville ; The Second Battle of Bull Run ; The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee ; and Military Reminiscences of the Civil War .
Cox died on summer vacation at Gloucester, Massachusetts. He is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.

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The March to the Sea

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War

Atlanta

Atlanta: Sherman's Campaign (Abridged, Annotated)

Sherman's Battle For Atlanta

Reminiscences of the Civil War

The Second Battle of Bull Run; As Connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. a Paper Read Before the Society of Ex-Army and Navy Officers of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882

The Second Battle Of Bull Run, As Connected With The Fitz-john Porter Case: A Paper Read Before The Society Of Ex-army And Navy Officers Of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882

Cox: Personal Recollections of the Civil War-Siege of Knoxville, East Tennessee, Atlanta Campaign, the Nashville Campaign & the North Carolina Campaign - Volume 2

Blue Tide Rising: A memoir of the Union Army in North Carolina

Sherman's March To The Sea: Hood’s Tennessee Campaign and the Carolina Campaigns of 1865

The Battle of Franklin

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Books from Jacob Dolson Cox

The March to the Sea

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War

Atlanta

Atlanta: Sherman's Campaign (Abridged, Annotated)

Sherman&apos;s Battle For Atlanta

Reminiscences of the Civil War

The Second Battle of Bull Run; As Connected with the Fitz-John Porter Case. a Paper Read Before the Society of Ex-Army and Navy Officers of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882

The Second Battle Of Bull Run, As Connected With The Fitz-john Porter Case: A Paper Read Before The Society Of Ex-army And Navy Officers Of Cincinnati, February 28, 1882

Cox: Personal Recollections of the Civil War-Siege of Knoxville, East Tennessee, Atlanta Campaign, the Nashville Campaign &amp; the North Carolina Campaign - Volume 2

Blue Tide Rising: A memoir of the Union Army in North Carolina

Sherman&apos;s March To The Sea: Hood’s Tennessee Campaign and the Carolina Campaigns of 1865

The Battle of Franklin

Sherman's Battle For Atlanta

Cox: Personal Recollections of the Civil War-Siege of Knoxville, East Tennessee, Atlanta Campaign, the Nashville Campaign & the North Carolina Campaign - Volume 2

Sherman's March To The Sea: Hood’s Tennessee Campaign and the Carolina Campaigns of 1865