Show I GEN COOK BEAD OID WAIt HORSE SURRENDERS AT DETROIT He Had Seen Service on Every Field Where American Valor Has Been Displayed for Fifty Years Detroit March 20 General Phillip St George Cook died at his home in this city at 2 oclock this afternoon General Cook was a native of Virginia Vir-ginia and was 85 years of age His career had been Identified with the army since his admission to West Point when only 1 years of age He I was also a member of the bar of Virginia I Vir-ginia and has written several interesting interest-ing works among which are a volume I on cavalr tactics Scenes and Adventures Ad-ventures In the Army and New Mexico and California General Cook has seen service In every ev-ery field where American valor has been displayed for fifty years In the Black Hawk war he was a leading officer He was In high command in the conquest of California and New Mexico He dispersed the Lipans in 1853 and later led a raid against the Apaches He was commander of the department of Utah when the rebellion broke out in that land Upon the breaking out of the rebellion re-bellion unlike most southern officers including bis own son and his famous soninlaw General J E B Stuart he cast his sword for the Union He became commander of the cavalry of the Army c the Potomac and participated In all the important im-portant events of the peninsular campaig at Gains Mill directly opposing op-posing his soninlaw He afterward superintended the recruiting service and in 1S66 took the department of Platte He was breveted major general gen-eral for his splendid service In the war In 1874 he was retired after fortysix years of continuous service with the rank of brigadiergeneral He had lived in Detroit ever since |