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Birth: Mar. 27, 1821
Death: Jul. 3, 1863
Civil War Union Brigadier General. He was wounded at the battles of Fredrickburg and Chancellorsville, and fatally wounded on the second day of the Battle of Gettsyburg while heroically leading his brigade in an attempt to stem the attack of General James Longstreet's troops who had broken the through a section of the misplaced III Corps line. He later died in a field hospital on the Baltimore Pike just after midnight.
Parents: David Zook (1791 - 1864), Eleanor S. Zook (1802 - 1901)
Burial: Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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At The Battle of Gettsyburg he said.
"If you can't get out of the way, " cried Zook, "lie down, and I will march over you. " Barnes ordered his men to lie down, and the chivalric Zook and his splendid brigade, under the personal direction of General Birney, did march over them and right into the breach. Alas! poor Zook soon fell, mortally wounded, and half of his brigade perished with him.
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