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Alexander Duval Cooper

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Alexander Duval Cooper

Birth
Maury County, Tennessee, USA
Death
10 Jul 1861 (aged 22)
Lewis County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Hohenwald, Lewis County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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Private, Company H, 3rd Clack's Tennessee Infantry-CSA
Married Mary (Mollie) E. Johnston on Nov. 28, 1860; Lewis Co. Marriage Book.
When Capt.Theodore Cooper was organizing his company, both his twin brothers, Alexander and Samuel joined him.They were encamped at Bowling Green,Ky. Alexander became ill with the measles and his brother sent him back home on furlough. He never recovered and died in the summer. Mollie Johnston, who was said to have been his cousin, bore his only child, a son, after he died. when the boy was 5 she married Fountain E.P. McBride. The son was Alexander Cooper he died 1862. Samuel Gwin Cooper was a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, where he died. He was buried with 6,000 other CSA soldiers at the "Confederate Mount" at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill.
"In Memory of Alexander D. Cooper who departed this life July 10, 1861 aged 22 years and 10 months, being in the Volunteer service of the State and, a member of Captain R.T. Cooper's Company."
Son of Col. Robert Melville and Catherine Cooper Cooper.

Soldiers Grave
Pearl Rivers


Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave,
A lonely, mossy mound;
And yet to hearts like mine and thine
It should be holy ground.

Speak softly, let no careless laugh,
No idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps
The hero in his rest.

For him no reveille will beat
When morning beams shall come;
For him, at night, no tattoo rolls
Its thunders from the drum.

Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed,
Ere laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his native land,
His gallant soul to God.


Private, Company H, 3rd Clack's Tennessee Infantry-CSA
Married Mary (Mollie) E. Johnston on Nov. 28, 1860; Lewis Co. Marriage Book.
When Capt.Theodore Cooper was organizing his company, both his twin brothers, Alexander and Samuel joined him.They were encamped at Bowling Green,Ky. Alexander became ill with the measles and his brother sent him back home on furlough. He never recovered and died in the summer. Mollie Johnston, who was said to have been his cousin, bore his only child, a son, after he died. when the boy was 5 she married Fountain E.P. McBride. The son was Alexander Cooper he died 1862. Samuel Gwin Cooper was a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, where he died. He was buried with 6,000 other CSA soldiers at the "Confederate Mount" at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill.
"In Memory of Alexander D. Cooper who departed this life July 10, 1861 aged 22 years and 10 months, being in the Volunteer service of the State and, a member of Captain R.T. Cooper's Company."
Son of Col. Robert Melville and Catherine Cooper Cooper.

Soldiers Grave
Pearl Rivers


Tread lightly, 'tis a soldiers grave,
A lonely, mossy mound;
And yet to hearts like mine and thine
It should be holy ground.

Speak softly, let no careless laugh,
No idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips where sweetly sleeps
The hero in his rest.

For him no reveille will beat
When morning beams shall come;
For him, at night, no tattoo rolls
Its thunders from the drum.

Tread lightly! for a man bequeathed,
Ere laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his native land,
His gallant soul to God.


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"ALEANDER DUVALL COOPER"

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