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

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S. ARMY </I></center></font></h1> <P> <B>SAMUEL COOPER</B> (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. <P> DS. 1pg. 4 ‰¾" x 7 ‰ˆ". November 1, 1858. Washington. A printed document signed <I>"<B>S Cooper</B> Adj Gen"</I>; it contains a set of three orders from Cooper, including: <I>"Paragraph 220, General Regulations, is so far modified as to direct that reveille be sounded, in garrison, immediately after daybreak."</I> Additionally, Cooper ordered that <I>"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."</I> 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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