A Concise System of Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and Volunteers of the United States
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Cooper's Cavalry Tactics, for the Use of Volunteers: To Which Is Added, a Manual for Colt's Revolver (Classic Reprint)
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Samuel Cooper was an American soldier. He had a distinguished military career and rose to the rank of full general, the highest ranking officer in the Army.
Background
Samuel Cooper was born on June 12, 1798 in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of Samuel and Mary (Horton) Cooper. His great-grandfather had come from Dorsetshire to Massachusetts, and his father, also a Massachusetts man, served as a major of artillery in the Continental Army.
Education
Cooper entered the Military Academy from New York on May 25, 1813 and graduated 36th in a class of 40 two years later.
Career
He was commissioned in the artillery on December 11, 1815. He served in garrison with troops at intervals, and was promoted to first lieutenant and captain of artillery in 1821 and 1836.
He was early selected for staff duty at headquarters of the army, however, and most of his service, aside from an expedition against the Seminoles in 1841-42, was in Washington. He was appointed an assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of major, in 1838, was made lieutenant-colonel in 1847, and was appointed adjutant-general of the army, with the rank of colonel, in 1852, partly in consequence of his highly efficient conduct of business in the War Department during the Mexican War. Having married a granddaughter of George Mason, he acquired a country place in Fairfax County, Virginia, near the homes of his wife's relatives and also convenient to his duties in Washington. These family connections, together with a close friendship with Jefferson Davis which had grown up when the latter was secretary of war, had made him wholly Southern in his feelings and sympathies, in spite of his Northern birth and ancestry, so that on the outbreak of the Civil
War he resigned his commission, March 7, 1861, and went to Montgomery to offer his services to the Confederacy.
To a newly established government, which had to create a complete military organization while engaged in fighting a great war, Cooper's long administrative experience was invaluable. He was at once made adjutant and inspector-general of the army, and was appointed to the full rank of general as soon as that grade was created by Congress. He was the senior officer of the Confederate Army throughout the war. When the Confederate government left Richmond in April 1865, he accompanied the President and cabinet until the party finally broke up, and then surrendered himself, turning over to his captors all of the records of the War Department which he had been able to remove and transport. The preservation of a great quantity of valuable historical material was thus due to his foresight and care. After his parole and release he returned to his estate at Cameron, near Alexandria, Virginia, where he resided in retirement until his death.