Alexander McDowell McCook
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Alexander McDowell McCook was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
Alexander McDowell McCook
General Alexander McDowell McCook's headquarters, Tuscumbia, Alabama, by Adolph Metzner.
Camp of General Alexander McDowell McCook near Stevenson, Alabama, summer 1862, by Adolph Metzner.
Maj. Gen Alexander M. McCook (center) and his staff on porch of quarters, Brightwood (7th Street Road near present Sheridan St)
McCook Field
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McCook Field was an airfield and aviation experimentation station in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It was operated by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps and its successor the United States Army Air Service from 1917 to 1927. It was named for Alexander McDowell McCook, an American Civil War general and his brothers and cousins, who were collectively known as "The Fighting McCooks".
Major Rudolph W. Schroeder(de) set a 30,900 foot two-man altitude record in a Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11 Biplane at McCook Field, 24 September 1919