James A. Cook
Name: James A. Cook
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 3rd Potomac Home Brigade Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: 10/26/1861
Company: B
Rank at End of Service: 2nd Lieutenant
Notes:
Veteran. Enlisted as a Sgt. Promoted 2nd Lt. on 5/9/1865. Not mustered. Resident of Cumberland, Allegany, MD in 1890.
Source(s):
Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury, "Bounty Rolls, 1864-1880," S629, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD, microfilm copy at Maryland Room, Frederick County Public Libraries, Frederick, MD, roll 231, page 55; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899); United States Census Bureau, “1880 Federal Census of Washngton, Co., MD,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
