FULL STANDING VIEW OF 3RD SOUTH CAROLINA BATTALION OFFICER WHO WAS WOUNDED AT GETTYSBURG AND LATER DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED AT SPOTSYLVANIA

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CDV is of Isaac Newton Cooper in Confederate uniform posed with one hand resting on a table.

Cooper wears a double-breasted light-colored frockcoat with dark trousers. Unfortunately, his beard hides any rank on his collar.

Image clarity and contrast are good. Paper and mount are toned and dirty. Top edge of the paper has some silverfish tracking but the subject is not affected.

Reverse is blank but at bottom there is a period pencil ID of “MR. I. N. COOPER, NINETY-SIX, S.C.” ID is confirmed by several on-line images.

Image is from the collection of the late William A. Turner.

Isaac Newton “Dock” Cooper was born in Laurens County, South Carolina on November 13, 1830. He enlisted as a corporal in Company C, 3rd Battalion South Carolina Infantry and was elected 2nd lieutenant on May 1, 1862 and promoted to 1st lieutenant September 14, 1862.

Cooper was present with his Company through 1862 taking part in the battles of 2nd Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg.

On February 4, 1863 he was sent home on recruiting duty which lasted until the beginning of the campaigning season when he returned to his Company. Cooper was present at Chancellorsville fighting at Salem Church. At Gettysburg, where his regiment served as part of Kershaw’s Brigade, he was wounded in the left arm on July 2 and sent to General Hospital No. 4 in Richmond arriving there on July 11 and received a 40 day furlough on July 20, 1863.

After his recovery, Cooper returned to the 3rd South Carolina in time to go west to Tennessee with Longstreet’s Corps and see action at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Knoxville.

During the Overland Campaign, Cooper fought in the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. At Spotsylvania on May 8, 1864, he was hit in the head by a piece of a cannister round and died on May 12, 1864.

The location of Lieutenant Cooper’s grave is not known but there is a memorial for him at Mount Olive Baptist Cemetery, Laurens County, South Carolina.  [ad] [ph:L]

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