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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William H. Cooper

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 27 year old carpenter living with wealthy planter Henry Wilkes Jones (1824-1900), Jones' family, and 48 slaves on the Jones plantation in Burke County, GA. He enlisted in Waynesboro, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 5 August as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1833 in SC

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

1 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 33754]

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