Hi - a request for information on a Newton Cook netted this information from Geoff Waldren who maintains an Orphan Brigade Web page .. Can anyone shed additional light on Cooks in this area of Kentucky ca 1860? I have to ask ... which gravesite have you visited? Newton Cook has grave markers in two Confederate cemeteries in that area ... one in Griffin, and one in Forsyth, and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure which is correct. The period Confederate records say he died in Forsyth in August 1864, but the Brigade historian said he died in Atlanta in August 1864, and was buried in Griffin. The historian's work was written after the war, but was based on wartime records. I would say that Forsyth is the more likely of the two, but that's not definite. Anyway, Newton Cook enlisted as a Pvt. in Co. D, 9th Kentucky Infantry, Oct. 21, 1861, in Abingdon, VA (that's where the company was mustered in, although it was composed of Kentuckians). ("Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, Confederate Kentucky Volunteers, War 1861-65" (Frankfort, 2 vols., 1915, 1918), Vol. 1, pp. 432-433) Newton Cook was from Harrison Co., KY, along with most of the rest of Co. D. He fought at Hartsville, TN (Dec. 1862), and at Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge. He was wounded at Chickamauga. (Ed Porter Thompson, "History of the Orphan Brigade," Louisville, 1898, p. 832) That's all the info I have on him; I hope it helps! I do not know of any web page specifically for the 9th Ky. Inf. Good luck in your research! Geoff Walden