| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Cockrell, Francis Marion |
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(k k´r l) (KEY) , 1834–1915, Confederate general and U.S. senator, b. Johnson co., Mo. Enlisting as a private with Confederate forces in the Civil War, he became a brigadier general in 1863. Cockrell’s Brigade was a famous unit in the Western fighting. After the war Cockrell entered Democratic politics, and in 1874 Missouri elected him to the U.S. Senate, where he served until 1905. | 1 | | See biography by F. M. Cockrell II (1962). | 2 |
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