COX, JACOB DOLSON ( 1828-1900) . An Ameri can soldier, politician, educator, and military historian. He was born in Montreal, Canada, was taken by his parents to New York City in 1829, graduated at Oberlin College in 1851, taught school at Warren, Ohio, in 1852, and there in the following year began the practice of law. From 1859 to 1861 he was a member of the State Senate, and in April, 1861, upon the outbreak of the Civil War, was appointed briga die•-general of Ohio volunteers. Ile took a prominent part in the Kanawha Valley cam paign) under McClellan in the summer of 1861; commanded the Ninth Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam in l862; commanded the Federal forces in West Virginia in the winter of 1862-63 and the military district of Ohio from April to December, 1863; was in command of the Twenty third Army Corps during General Sherman's At lanta campaign and the Franklin and Nashville campaign; was commissioned majo•-general of volunteers in December, 1864; and early in 1865 was sent to North Carolina to open communica tions with General Sherman, with whom he effect ed a junction at Goldsboro soon afterwards. In 1S66 he resigned from the service. After the
close of the war he served as Governor of Ohio in 1866 and 1867, attracting attention by his opposition to the policy of his party (the Repub lican) on the question of negro suffrage: and from March, 1S69, until December, 1870, when he resigned, was Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Grant. Be then again practiced law, was president of the Wabash Rail road for several years, was a Republican mem ber of Congress from 1877 to 1879, was dean of the Cincinnati Law School from 1881 to 1897, and for a short time after 1885 was also presi dent of the University of Cincinnati. He wrote many magazine articles, mostly on subjects con nected with the Civil War and with microscopy, in which he attained considerable eminence, and published the following valuable works on the military history of the Civil War: Atlanta (1882); The March to the Sea: Franklin and Nashville (1882) ; 7'he Second Battle of Bull Run as Conmyted with the Fitz-John Porter Case and The Battle of Franklin (1879). His Military Reminiscences of the Civil 11 ar (2 vols.) were published posthumously in 1900.