Seventeen “Fighting McCooks of Ohio” from the Carrolton and Steubenville area of the state, volunteered to serve in the Union Army. These included 58-year-old Daniel McCook and eight of his sons, and his brother John McCook, and his five sons. There were three major generals, three brigadier generals, one naval

  Dan McCook Jr. was the son of Dan McCook, patriarch of the Fighting McCooks of Ohio. In his 20s, Dan Jr. studied law with future Secretary of War Edwin Stanton at the Stanton & McCook Law Firm in Steubenville, Ohio. Later he joined the partnership of Ewing, Sherman &