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[Identification of item], in the Samuel Cooper Papers, #2482-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Autobiographies--Massachusetts.
• Autobiographies--Virginia.
• Boston Tea Party, 1773.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Cooper, Samuel, 1759-1809.
• Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876.
• Fairfax County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Indians of North America--Texas--History--19th century.
• Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875.
• Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775.
• Massachusetts--Biography.
• Northrop, Lucius Bellinger, 1811-1894.
• Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842--Personal narratives.
• Texas--History--1846-1950.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives.
• United States. Army--Officers--Biography.
• United States. War Dept.--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Biography.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History--19th century.

Samuel Cooper was a native of New Jersey, adjutant general in the United States Army, and adjutant general and inspector general in the Confederate Army.

Chiefly microfilm, the collection contains reminiscences, scattered correspondence, and other papers of Cooper and papers of his father, Major Samuel Cooper (1759-1809) of Massachusetts. Cooper's reminiscences cover the period 1818-1852 and discuss army operations in the Second Seminole War, 1841-1842, on the Texas frontier, 1851, and against Indians in Texas. Correspondence of Cooper chiefly concerns the United States War Department before the Civil War and home life in Fairfax County, Va. It includes eight letters, 1853-1854, from Captain Lucius Bellinger Northrop (1811-1894) to Cooper concerning Northrop's sick furlough from the United States Army; and two letters, 1863 and 1864, concerning the military situation around Wilmington, N.C., and Richmond, Va., respectively. Papers of Major Samuel Cooper (1759-1809) include brief reminiscences of his Revolutionary War service, including the Battle of Lexington and the Boston Tea Party.

• Microfilm (Reel M-2482/1)