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Pvt Samuel Gwin Cooper
11 Sep 1838 – 25 Apr 1862
| Birth | 11 Sep 1838 |
| Death | 25 Apr 1862 |
| Cemetery | Oak Woods Cemetery Chicago , Cook County , Illinois , USA |
| Added by | M Mellen on 27 Feb 2022 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7098196 |
Gravesite details
One of 6,000 Confederate soldiers buried here who died as Prisoners of War at Camp Douglas in Chicago.
Bio
One of ten sons of Col. Robert Melville and Catherine Cooper to served in the C.S.A. during the Civil War. He died with 4 of his other brothers, and 4 brothers wounded and 1 unscathed. Born in Maury/Lewis Co. Tennessee. Samuel Gwin Cooper was captured at Fort Donelson when the Confederates there surrendered. He was transported to Camp Douglas in Chicago where he died a few months later of pneumonia. He is buried along with thousands of other Confederate prisoners of war in the huge burial mound outside of what was Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois.
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H 3 TENN.
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- Cornelius Cooper 1816–1880
- Lt. Col. Albert Gallatin Cooper 1817–1883
- Paris Cooper 1819–1903
- John Hamilton Cooper 1821–1822
- Lieut William McAdams Cooper 1823–1862
- Eleanor Jane Cooper Houser 1824–1914
- Capt James Carlisle Cooper 1826–1897
- Mary Catherine Cooper Williams 1829–1915
- Henry Augustus Cooper 1830–1864
- Capt Robert Theodore Cooper 1832–1863
- Thomas Simpson Cooper 1834–1923
- Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Cooper Pickard 1836–1929
- Alexander Duval Cooper 1838–1861
- Leander Bruce Cooper 1841–1926
- Alfred Theodorick Cooper 1844–1931
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