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John Rutter Brooke is not my relative however I am researching his service in the Civil War and found this information in Myers, Irvin G. We Might as Well Die Here: The 53rd Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2004. page 269.
Colonel John Brooke became the regimental commander of the 53rd PA on November 5, 1861. He fought in every major battle of the 53rd until Cold Harbor where he was severely wounded and had to be taken from the field. He became a brigade commander in the Second Corps in the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac before the Battle of Chancellorsville largely due the extremely positive opinion of his military capabilities held by General Winfield Scott Hancock. He was promoted to Brigadier General on May 12, 1864; the very day he led his brigade in battle at the Bloody Angle of the Mule Shoe Salient at the Battle of Spotsylvania. After being wounded at Cold Harbor in the charge of the 7th New York Heavy Artillery, he received a promotion to Brevet Major General on August 1, 1864. He never returned to the 53rd but remained in the regular army for the rest of his life, fighting in the Indian Wars in the west and the Spanish American War at the turn of the century. He briefly served as Military Governor of Puerto Rico and then Cuba. He died at the age of 88 in Philadelphia PA in 1926 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC.