Colonel Charles Scott Cocke

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Most of what we know about Charles Cocke comes from his Revolutionary War Pension Application which was filed in Lee County, Virginia on 15 Jan 1838. This Application gives us several intriguing insights into his character. The fact that he had traveled all the way from Arkansas to file the application and, more significantly, that he was 88 years old at the time suggests that he was a man of considerable fortitude. The fact that he obtained the assistance of a Senator to help move things along suggests that he was a man with some political acumen and connections. The Application itself shows a man of considerable bravery - he mentions offhandedly that he had fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant (perhaps the fiercest battle ever fought on the frontier) and that, even while a Captain in the Militia, he had frequently put himself in harm's way by engaging in long-range patrols. Other records tend to confirm these impressions. One letter describes him as "a Gentleman whose character stands fair, as well as being an experienced and brave officer in Indian Warfare". An account in the Draper Manuscripts indicates that he was a man who had a good deal of common sense. Other documents confirm that, like many of his contemporaries, he was a military man, a politician, a hunter and explorer, and an entrepreneur. The frontier was not a place for ordinary men or women.
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Excerpt from the Pension Application, statement date 15-Jan-1838:

That about the month of July in the year 1780, he was commissioned by the Governor of
Virginia as a captain of Militia, in the then County of Washington in the said State of Virginia,
over a company of Rangers in the regiment at that time commanded by Col. Arthur Campbell, the
number of which, the declarant has now forgotten. That he was stationed, with the company under
his command, during the balance of that year, and in 1781 at the Rocky Station Fort, in the County
of Washington but now County of Lee, on the old Kentucky trace, on the Southwestern frontier of
Virginia. That during that time, which embraced a period of about eighteen months, the declarant
with some part of his command, was in constant service, either in acting as Spies, in pursuit of the
Savages, or in guarding the Fort.