2020-09 Putnal
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COOPER, Samuel (178-1876) was a career United States Army staff officer, serving during the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War. Although little-known today, Cooper was also the highest-ranking Confederate general during the American Civil War. After the conflict, he remained in Virginia as a farmer. War-date Autograph Endorsement Signed by General Samuel Cooper forwarding a letter received from Colonel Ould to President Jefferson Davis. This letter penned by Mrs. Richard Thomas, 1pp. quarto, is dated October 4, 1862 and written from Charlotte Hall pertaining to her son who is a prisoner in Federal lines, and reads in part: "...I have heard that your demand for my son Col. Zarvona has been refused by the Federal Government. If he is suffered to remain much longer in solitary confinement, his mind may be seriously affected thereby....The Federal Government say that they are afraid that he will blow up the Fort - but what has he to blow up the Fort with?...I did not expect that Col. Zarvona would have been so utterly forgotten by the Southern and left in prison nearly 15 months before there was any demand made for him...He was the first taken, and I should think he ought to have been the first demanded..." More. Fine condition. Richard Thomas Zarvona (1833-1875), born Richard Thomas Jr., was an American adventurer, soldier, and a Confederate Army officer who became known as "the French lady" after he disguised himself as a woman to seize a passenger steamer during the American Civil War.
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