General Orders from Samuel Cooper While He Was Still an Adjutant General In the U.s. Army

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S. ARMY SAMUEL COOPER (1798-1876). Confederate general during the Civil War. Cooper was a West Point graduate and talented administrator who served as adjutant general of the U.S. Army 1855-1861. When the Civil War came, he resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and entered Confederate service, being one of the few northern-born West Point graduates to do so. He was immediately appointed adjutant- and inspector-general of the Confederate Army, and was the highest ranking officer in that Army throughout the war. He accompanied Jefferson Davis out of Richmond in April 1865. DS. 1pg. 4 ¾" x 7 ½". November 1, 1858. Washington. A printed document signed "S Cooper Adj Gen"; it contains a set of three orders from Cooper, including: "Paragraph 220, General Regulations, is so far modified as to direct that reveille be sounded, in garrison, immediately after daybreak." Additionally, Cooper ordered that "Hereafter, when military posts are established, (fortifications excepted,) or camps of more than a temporary nature are occupied, the commanders thereof will transmit to the Adjutant General of the Army an accurate description of the locality of such posts or camps, accompanied by a sketch of the country in their immediate vicinity." It is in pristine condition, with a bit of unremarkable yellowing on the left margin and a small stain to the right of the text. In addition, there are two punch holes to the left of the text, indicating that the orders were originally held in a two-ring binder

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