Notes and recollections of Army life experiences as a soldier during the two years of the Rebellion [manuscript], 1859-1911.

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Notes and recollections of Army life experiences as a soldier during the two years of the Rebellion [manuscript], 1859-1911.

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Cooper gives eyewitness accounts of 1st and 2nd Bull Run, camping on Robert E. Lee's Arlington estate, an unsuccessful Confederate attempt to blockade Washington, and the Battle of Yorktown. He briefly refers to the death of Philip Kearny. The volume also contains miscellaneous entries, 1859 by Augustus L. Melvin, a seaman on the barque Ceres, in which Cooper also sailed. He records brief impressions of Jamestown, St. Helena, lists other ships in the harbor, and sketches the fort and Ladder Hill. The midsection of the volume contains numerous clippings concerning the war, the 1st Massachusetts, and other subjects of interest to Cooper. Several brief articles were written by him and published anonymously particularly one on the Conferate attempt to blockade the Potomac and a sentimental story about a dying rebel from New York.

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Cooper, Oliver C., fl. 1859-1911.

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Union soldier, 1st Massachusetts Infantry, wounded at Yorktown, April 1862, and subsequently discharged. From the description of Notes and recollections of Army life experiences as a soldier during the two years of the Rebellion [manuscript], 1859-1911. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 761321614 ...

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