Did Herman Melville ghostwrite (or ghost-edit?) Philip St George Cooke's Scenes and Adventures in the Army?
Philip St George Cooke
Bio at Encyclopedia Virginia
Cullum's Register
--index to West Point graduates with chronology of Cooke's military career
Famous Men, Silent Women
--informative and moving chronicle of the Cooke family by Penny Barrott, great great grandaughter of PSGC
General Philip St George Cooke
--PDF file of the appreciative and well documented biographical study by Carolyn Thomas Foreman
Life and Services of General Philip St. George Cooke
--Memoir by Wesley Merritt in the Journal of the United States Cavalry Association 8.29 (June 1895): 79-92.
Romance at Old Cantonment Leavenworth
--by Hamilton Gardner, account of Cooke's 1830 marriage to Rachel Wilt Hertzog
The West of Philip St George Cooke
--by Otis E. Young, a classic and still the standard biography
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