Background
John Rutter Brooke was born on July 21, 1838 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the son of William and Martha (Rutter) Brooke. His first American ancestor came from Yorkshire in 1698.
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John Rutter Brooke was born on July 21, 1838 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the son of William and Martha (Rutter) Brooke. His first American ancestor came from Yorkshire in 1698.
John Brooke was educated at Freeland Seminary (in whose buildings Ursinus College was afterward organized) and in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Responding to the call for three months' service, at the outbreak of the Civil War, John Brooke was mustered in, April 20, 1861, as captain in the 4th Pennsylvania Infantry. This was the regiment which won notoriety by claiming its discharge just before the battle of Bull Run. In spite of the personal appeals of the Secretary of War (Cameron), it marched back from Centreville on the morning of the battle, while the rest of the army moved forward into action.
Brooke was mustered out on July 26, 1861, but not sharing the regiment's antipathy to fighting he still sought service, and was again mustered in, November 7, 1861, as colonel of the new 53rd Pennsylvania Infantry, and with it joined the Army of the Potomac. He commanded his regiment in the Peninsular campaign, a brigade at Antietam, and his regiment once more at Fredericksburg.
He was finally assigned to the command of a brigade of the 2nd Corps in December 1862, though without promotion. This he commanded at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In the latter battle, the 2nd Corps arrived on the field early in the morning of the second day, and was posted near the center of the Union line. When the Confederate attack was made upon the salient held by the 3rd Corps (Sickles), Caldwell's division, to which Brooke's brigade belonged, was sent to its assistance, and took part in the desperate fighting around the wheat field.
Brooke was wounded, --"severely bruised" was his own expression for it, --but continued in command. Through the winter of 1863-64 Brooke was in command of the veteran camp at Harrisburg, returning to the army before it took the field for the spring campaign. He sustained and enhanced his reputation for hard fighting, at last receiving appointment as brigadier-general of volunteers, May 12, 1864, the commission itself reciting that it was conferred "for distinguished services during the recent battles of the Old Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia" In the great assault at Cold Harbor, June 3, he was severely wounded, and was carried from the field insensible.
He could not return to duty until September, and being still unfit for field service, was then employed on boards and courts until March 1865, when he took command of a division of the Army of the Shenandoah.
He resigned from the army on February 1, 1866, but returned to service on being appointed, July 28, 1866, lieutenant-colonel of the 37th Infantry, in the regular army. He was promoted to colonel, March 20, 1879, to brigadier-general, April 6, 1888, and to major-general, May 22, 1879.
At the beginning of the war with Spain he was assigned to the command of the Ist Corps, and put in charge of the camp at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, where his own corps, and also the 3rd (Wade's) were stationed. As the responsible commander, he incurred some of the blame for the deplorable sanitary conditions in that camp. Late in July he was sent with part of his troops to participate in the campaign in Porto Rico.
Landing at Arroyo, July 31, he advanced to Guayama where he had a slight skirmish, August 5, and then to Cayey. He was preparing to attack the Spaniards at this place, --the guns were laid and awaiting the order to fire, --when notice reached him that the armistice had been concluded.
After the Spanish evacuation he was military governor of Porto Rico for a few months, and of Cuba for a year, returning to the United States to take command of the Department of the East.
He died on September 5, 1926 in Philadelphia.
John Rutter Brooke was mustered out of the volunteer service as a brevet Major General in 1866. That same year, he joined the regular army as Lieutenant Colonel. He was promoted to Colonel in 1879; Brigadier General in 1888, and reached the rank of Major General in 1897. During the Spanish-American War, he took part in the Puerto Rico Campaign under Nelson A. Miles and served as military governor first of Puerto Rico and then of Cuba after evacuation of islands by Spain. He then was a head of the Department of the East, before being force to retire due to reaching the retirement age of 64.
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General Brooke was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Companion #02434) and served as its national commander-in-chief from 1905 to 1907. He was also a member of the Minnesota Society of Colonial Wars and the Military Order of Foreign Wars.
Quotes from others about the person
"Of the merit of Colonel Brooke, commanding 4th Brigade, too much can scarcely be said, " wrote General Caldwell in his report. "His services on this as well as many other fields have fairly earned him promotion".
Brooke was twice married: first, December 24, 1863, to Louisa Roberts, who died in 1867, and second, September 19, 1877, to Mary L. Stearns, of Concord, New Hampshire.
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