Statistics for occurrence #1 of “General Cooper” in chapter 50 of Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2:
...as momentarily paralyzed by the blow, but at last he tried to write an answer, and then called out, in a heart-broken tone, I must have this day with my little child.
Somebody took the despatch to General Cooper and left us alone with our dead.
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