Cavalry up to Wounded Knee. He left this command in 1895. In 1897, he was promoted to major general in the Regular Army and assigned to command the I Corps during the Spanish–American War. In Puerto Rico, he landed in Arroyo with General Hains, and reached Guayama by the time the armistice was signed. When General Miles left the island in October 1898 to return to the United States, Brooke became military governor and head of the army of occupation in the U.S. military government. On the December 6, Brooke was replaced by General Guy Vernor Henry, and by December 13, was named to the same position in Cuba. General Brooke was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Companion #02434) and served as its national commander-in-chief from 1905 to 1907. He was also a member of the Minnesota Society of Colonial Wars and the Military Order of Foreign Wars. General Brooke retired from the Army on July 21, 1902, in Philadelphia, where he lived until his death at age 88 in 1926. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Family In 1863, Brooke married Louisa H. Roberts of Warwick, Pennsylvania. She died in 1867, and in 1877 he married Mary L. Stearns, the daughter of Governor Onslow Stearns. With his first wife, Brooke was the father of two sons, William and Louis. Legacy The troop transport , launched February 1943, was named in his honor. The former U.S. Army military post in San Juan, P.R., which encompassed El Morro Castle was named Fort Brooke in his honor. See also List of American Civil War generals (Union) Notes References Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. . Military Album of Commissioned Officers in the Spanish–American War, Library of Congress "Gen. J. R. Brooke Comes to Atlanta." Atlanta Constitution. May 18, 1898, p. 5. External links The John Rutter Brooke Papers, including correspondence, accounts, regimental reports, military orders and pamphlets that pertain to his military career, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Arlington National Cemetery Crónica de la guerra hispano-americana en Puerto Rico - page 2 (in Spanish) 1838 births 1926 deaths Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Governors of Puerto Rico Colonial heads of Cuba Military history of Puerto Rico Political history of Puerto Rico People of Pennsylvania in