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John Esten Cooke
Born(1830-11-03)November 3, 1830
Winchester, Virginia, U.S.
DiedSeptember 27, 1886(1886-09-27) (aged 55)
Clarke County, Virginia, U.S.
Resting placeOld Chapel Cemetery
Millwood, Virginia, U.S.
Spouse
Mary Francis Page
(m. 1867; died 1878)
Parent
  • John R. Cooke (father)
RelativesPhilip Pendleton Cooke (brother)
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John Esten Cooke (November 3, 1830 – September 27, 1886) was an American novelist, writer and poet. He was the brother of poet Philip Pendleton Cooke. During the American Civil War, Cooke was a staff officer for Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart in the Confederate States Army cavalry and, after Stuart's death, for Brig. Gen. William N. Pendleton. Stuart's wife, Flora, was a first cousin of Cooke.

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The Guns of the South

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Literate rebs will read it again and again and again." The book won the John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction in 1993. Novels portal American Civil War...

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Confederate strength of 75,000 is "a conservative one". Confederate Captain John Esten Cooke in A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, New York: D. Appleton, 1871, p. 328...

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List of literary awards

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Laughlin Award Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize Jackson Poetry Prize The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award Joseph Henry Jackson Award Kate Tufts Discovery Award...

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Harry Turtledove

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the Homer Award for Short Story in 1990 for "Designated Hitter", the John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction in 1993 for The Guns of the South, and the...

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Battle of Fredericksburg

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Gallagher, p. vii, discusses the exact wording of Lee's famous quotation. John Esten Cooke, a member of Jeb Stuart's staff, wrote that Lee told Longstreet, "It...

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Philip Pendleton Cooke

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John R. Cooke (1788−1854). He was thus descended from the First Families of Virginia. Of the large (13 child) family, his younger brother John Esten Cooke...

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Randolph family of Virginia

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Robert Powell Page (1794-1849) Mary Frances Page (1840-1878), ∞ 1867 : John Esten Cooke (1830-1886) Robert Carter Randolph (1807–1887), ∞ 1830 : Lucy Nelson...

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History of Virginia

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Explorations in Ethnic Studies, vol 1 (Jan. 1978), 16–36 Gleach p. 199 John Esten Cooke, Virginia: A History of the People (1883) p. 205. Heinemann, Ronald...

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Burning of Winchester Medical College

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the article posits." The college closed after the senior physician, John Esten Cooke, left for Transylvania University. McGuire, 20 years later, would restart...

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List of American novelists

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(born 1934), Upon Some Midnights Clear Robin Cook (born 1940), Coma John Esten Cooke (1830–1886), The Virginia Comedians Caroline B. Cooney (born 1947)...

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1854 in literature

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Diocese of Magnesia

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Continuity and Unity. Cambridge University Press (2014), p. 120. John Esten Cooke, An Essay on the Invalidity of Presbyterian Ordination (the Reporter...

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Robert Goolrick

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Chapel Cemetery in Millwood, Virginia, along with his ancestor, writer John Esten Cooke (1830–1886). 2007: The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from...

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Francis Pharcellus Church

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including Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, John William De Forest, Rose Terry Cooke, John Esten Cooke, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. The magazine's...

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1866 in literature

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Wilkie Collins – Armadale (serialization completed and in book form) John Esten Cooke – Surry of Eagle's-Nest Alphonse Daudet – Letters From My Windmill...

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Virginia literature

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writers William Alexander Caruthers (1802–1846), John Esten Cooke (1830–1886), Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816–1850), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784–1851)...

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Donald McCaig

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Jacob's Ladder also won the Library of Virginia Fiction Award, the John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction, and the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence...

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Alden Carter

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cast from every level of the military with vivid narration won the John Esten Cooke Fiction Award from the Military Order of the Stars & Bars. Carter's...

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Henry Brainerd McClellan

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Potomac, McClellan, other staff officers Andrew Reid Venable, Jr. and John Esten Cooke and a courier, were eating breakfast at the home of a blacksmith while...

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Emilie Watts McVea

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sisters to Raleigh, North Carolina to be closer to family. Her uncle, John Esten Cooke Smedes, was the second president of St. Augustine's College in Raleigh...

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John Emory

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John Emory (April 11, 1789 – 1835) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1832. He is the namesake for Emory University and...

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