James W. Cooke

James W. Cooke

Infobox Military Person
name= James Wallace Cooke
born=
died= 1869


caption= James Wallace Cooke
nickname=
placeofbirth= North Carolina
placeofdeath= Portsmouth, Virginia
allegiance= United States of America, Confederate States of America
branch= United States Navy
Confederate States Navy
serviceyears= 1828–61 (USA)
1861–65 (C.S.A)
rank=
unit=
commands= CSS "Ellis"
CSS "Albemarle"
battles= American Civil War
awards=
relations=
laterwork=

James Wallace Cooke (died 1869) was an American naval officer, serveding in the United States Navy and during the American Civil War serving in the Confederate Navy.

James Wallace Cooke was born in North Carolina and joined the United States Navy in 1828. In May 1861, while holding the rank of lieutenant, he resigned his U.S. commission.

Civil War service

At the start of the Civil War in 1861 Cooke joined the Virginia State Navy, and entered the service of the Confederacy in the following June. Later that year he was placed in command of the small gunboat CSS "Ellis", and was captured with her after a hard fight near Roanoke Island, North Carolina on February 10, 1862. Wounded in that action and soon paroled, he was promoted to commander in June 1862.

Commander Cooke's next assignment was to oversee the construction of the ironclad ram CSS "Albemarle", under construction at "Edward's Ferry" near modern day Scotland Neck, North Carolina, from January 1863. After many difficulties, "Albemarle" was successfully completed in April 1864, and Cooke became her commanding officer. On April 19 and May 5, he took her into action against Federal forces, sinking one gunboat and disabling or driving off others. That June he was promoted to the rank of captain and was later placed in charge of Confederate navel forces on North Carolina's internal waters, holding that position until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Late life and death

James W. Cooke died at Portsmouth, Virginia in 1869.

References

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