Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — The Fighting McCooks. [ARTICLE]

The Fighting McCooks.

A rather remarkable coincidence occurred a few evenings since at the Thirdstreet crossing restaurant, one that has a little tinge of romance in it. A party of four gentlemen, strangers, we believe, were seated around a table sipping their coffee and waiting for a train There was a little of the commonplace desultory conversation, such as is usuai among strangers, when, from some incident, it turned to the late war. It soon became known that all the gentlemen had been in the service. Now comes the singular fact that each had been in an Ohio regiment, but separate ones, and that each had been in a regiment commanded by a member of the celebrated McCook family. It seemed rather remarkable that a party of four soldiers, years after being mustered out

of the service, should meet in this way by accident, and that their respective four regimental commanders should have been brothers. One of the veterans was a member of the First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, OoL A. D. McCook; another of the Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Anson G. McCook; another of the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Col. Robert McCook, and the fourth man of the Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Col. Daniel McCook. The conversation between the veterans was becoming interesting and animated when the sound of the locomotive bell called them to separate, but it was with a hearty “ shake ” and goodby.—Dayton {Ohio) Democrat.