Crook, George

soldier, was born near Dayton, O., Sept. 8, 1828. After graduating from West Point, he joined the 4th Infantry and entered active service (1852) in California. From that time until 1861, he participated in various expeditions against the Indians; and at the outbreak of the Civil War became colonel of the 36th Ohio Infantry, soon rising to the command of the 3d Provisional Brigade, operating in W. Virginia. Served in that State and in Virginia and Maryland until 1863, when he was transferred to the 2d cavalry division and took part in the battles of Chick am aug a and Tullahoma, having been previously brevetted lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. In 1864 he joined Sheridan in his famous Shenandoah campaign; in March, 1865, was brevetted major-general of volunteers, and had command of the cavalry forces of the Army of the Potomac until the end of the war. Being mustered out of the volunteer service in 1866, C. soon rejoined the regular army as lieutenant-colonel of the 23d Infantry and was sent to Idaho to quell the existing Indian outbreaks. For six years thereafter he rendered incalculable service in his various campaigns against the Piutes and Apaches in Arizona, and the Sioux and Cheyennes in the northwest, completely subduing the latter. In 1882 he raided the squatters who had encroached on certain Indian lands, and in 1883 compelled the Chiricubuas to cease their troublesome depredations. C. became brigadier general, U. S. A., in 1873; major-general in 1888, being soon thereafter a igned to the command of the Department of the Mi ouri, with headquarters at Chicago. His record as an Indian fighter is unsurpa ed, and his suggestions as to their management have been observed with profit by the government, being humane but effective. Died in Chicago in 1890, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., where a beautiful monument has been erected by his old comrades.