Uniform of John Cook
Brigadier General, US Volunteers

John was the son of Daniel P Cook , second Congressman from Illinois and the man for whom Cook County was named. In 1855 John was elected Mayor of Springfield and the following year Sheriff of Sangamon County. After the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, he raised a company of troops and was commissioned a Colonel of the 7^th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was promoted to Brigadier General in March of 1862. Another Frock Coat exists for John Cook.  It is his Colonels uniform adjusted to his promotion to Brigadier. The coat featured here came later and he didn’t wear it long as he was made a Major General in August of 1865.