Cox was a physician in Westmoreland County, VA when he enlisted on May 25, 1861as a sergeant in Co. C of the 9th VA Cavalry. By November 1861, his rank is listed as private. He was taken prisoner on July3, 1863 at Gettysburg and sent to Fort McHenry, MD and then to the prison camp at Fort Delaware, DE. He was paroled July 30, 1863, and returned to his company. Cox was shot in the left arm at Nance's Shop, VA on June 24, 1864, and hospitalized at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA.
After the war, Cox became a dentist in Baltimore, MD and then in Alexandria, VA. He died September 16, 1902 and is buried in Saint Paul's Cemetery in Alexandria, VA.
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