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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of the late General S. Cooper. (search)
ook atone time in almost universal use among the volunteer soldiery, and extensively known as Cooper's Tactics. In 1827 General Cooper married a daughter of General John Mason, of Clermont, Fairfax county, Virginia, and a grand-daughter of George Mason, of Gunston, the Solon and the Cato, the law-giver and the stern patriot of the age in which he lived, and to whose memory the constitution of Virginia and her bill of rights are lasting monuments. At the head of the Adjutant-General's Depa been passed. This office was one for which he was peculiarly qualified, and which was best suited to his taste. He was a native of a Northern State; his sole personal relation with the South was that he was the husband of a granddaughter of George Mason, of Virginia--Virginia, not yet belonging to the Confederate States. He foresaw the storm, which was soon to burst upon the seceding States--saw that the power which had been refused in the convention which formed the Constitution of the Unio