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Show GENERAL M'COOK. With the death of General Alexander McDowell McCook, we believe the last one of that particular particu-lar family of McCooks is dead. The father and four brothers died In the great war. It was truly a family of "fighting McCooks." They were different in intellect, but they were on a level in patriotism, and when the cry rang out that the old flag had been fired upon, the appeal smote all their hearts in the same way,s at the same moment: the sons went to the front; the old father joined the home guards, and when the pall was lifted all were dead save he who last week followed the others. The news of the death of General Alex. McD. McCook i& sad news in this city, for he was stationed here several years and made many friendships. To some of us his death comes as a direct personal bereavement. How the old days come back! In those days there was a little company that often met, and of them Governor Murray, General Stanton, General Connor, Dr. Hamilton, Colonel Holllster Mr. J. R. Walker, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Campbell, Dr Fowler, Major Erb, General Maxwell, Mr. Richard Mackintosh, Mack-intosh, and many others, and now General McCook, Mc-Cook, are all dead. The swift years have no halt- ing places; there is no break in the endless procession pro-cession from the cradle to the grave. When that little company met, the situation here was such as to awaken all that was deep and high and true in men, hence the friendships formed were deeper deep-er than they might have been in other places, and as one and another fall asleep, memory Is kept busy In calling up the old familiar faces and names until sometimes in thinking the sunlight sun-light and the flowers grow dim because of unbidden un-bidden tears. Whether General McCook had all the attributes attri-butes needed to direct a great campaign Is an unsettled un-settled question. He won Imperishable honors at Perryvllle, for though attached to Buell's army, his division fought that battle unaided. His command com-mand was rolled back at Chicamagua, for there in overwhelming hosts, the enemy struck him, but if tnere was any error it was that of his superior officer. But waiving any discussion of his claims to great generalship, there can be no debate about his place as one of the foremost great soldiers sol-diers of the Republic. He proved up that claim on many a red field, and there is no conflict In the splendid testimony. From Bull Run to Appomattox Ap-pomattox he was always the faithful soldier, and that ho did not die as did his father and -his brothers was not that he evaded that fate, but rather that fate evaded him, for ho never faltered fl when the cry was: B "Onre more unto the breach, dear friends, once jH Or close the wall up with our patriot dead." B Every star on his shoulder he earned under B battle clouds and In the face of his country's foe. B But as man and friend he will bo most H mourned here. Not everyone had any idea of the H depth and tenderness of his royal nature. At his H first coming his first wife died. He was a stran- H ger; he would permit no stranger's hand to as- H sist him. He himself dressed her and composed H her in her narrow 'couch; his children were all H the world to him; his home was to him a temple H where only loving words were to be spoken. Ho B had a thousand friends whom he greeted cor- B dially every day; he had a few friends to whom B alone his deeper, gentler self was revealed, and B those of these few are sorely grieved now. H ,vHe was born a poor boy; he was educated by M his country and to that country he devoted his jfl life, offering it over und over, and never wav- ; M ering until retired by age. His whole life was I M a magnificent example and inspiration to every M young man. His grave adds one more sacred B place to the soil of Ohio; his name goes into H history as one of native land's noblest defenders, B and "he sinks to rest with all his country's hon. H ors blest." H |