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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Samuel Cooper

(c. 1831 - 1897)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Austin as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 27 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sick in Richmond, VA hospitals from December 1862 to April 1863 and was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was sent to Fort Delaware on 7 July and was a prisoner there to 13 February 1865, when he took an oath of allegiance, gave his residence as New Haven, CT, and was released. There is no later military record.

After the War

In 1880 he wa a carriage painter in Austin, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Samuel C. Cooper.

He married Mary Martha Nichols (1836-1921) in November 1858 and they had 8 children.

Birth

c. 1831 in CT

Death

11/07/1897; in TX; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1662]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26767]

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