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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Frank Cooper

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Holcombe (SC) Legion Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

A farmer in Spartanburg County, he enlisted as Private, Infantry Company E, Holcombe Legion on 16 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 2 October but died of tuberculosis at a hospital in Richmond, VA on 5 November 1862.

References & notes

His service and other details thanks to Barry Truluck from his research in the US Census (1850, 1860), Cooper's Compiled Service Records (via Fold3), and the Roll 1 for Company E.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

11/05/1862; Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Company E, Holcombe Legion [AotW citation 22108]

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