John Esten CookeJohn Esten Cooke (1830-1886) won fame as a writer in the post-Civil War era America, most notably for his biographies of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, but also for at least 29 other major books and around 200 othe works, dealing with the early history of the colony of Virginia and the American Civil War. Read More Read Less