CSA Soldiers' Rest

CSA Men Interred at Cooper Wells With Memorial Markers At The CSA Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi within Cedar Hill Cemetery Not Forgotten

Home The Installation of the Memorial Stones
		All photos by Bryan Skipworth
Perfectly aligned in peace, these are the memorial stones for some of the casualties interred during the summer of 1862 at Cooper Wells. The markers were put in place 154 years later, in the summer of 2016, by Mississippi Lt. G. J.C. Pemberton Camp 1354 Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Third Brigade. The marker reads in part, "Dedicated to the memory of the men who gave their lives in defense of Vicksburg." Almost all these men died from disease in one or other of the hospitals around Mississippi Springs, Miss. Many had just enlisted. When the young men went for soldiers, they were exposed to germs and diseases they had not faced at home -- thus, they had no resistance to them and fell ill to various sicknesses. They also suffered the consequences of the summer weather and the unhealthy conditions of the camps. Severe diarrhea and typhoid were common killers. Cooper Wells is also seen as Cooper's Well, Coopers Wells, and other ways.
Pvt Henry Barron Co. E 27 La Inf CSA Jul 8, 1862	Pvt Lastie Bertrand Co. I 28 La Inf CSA Sep 6, 1862	Pvt William T. Bowen Co. F 27 La Inf CSA Aug 9, 1862
Pvt Prudhomme Cailler Co. E 28 La Inf CSA Jul 17, 1862	Corp Hugh C. Caskey Co. F 28 La Inf CSA Jun 23 1862	Pvt Van Buren Chaddick Co. C 27 La Inf CSA Jul 2, 1862
Pvt Washington Clark Co. B 28 La Inf CSA 1862 [bur. Soldiers Rest, Vicksburg]	Pvt Marion Cook Co. B 46 Miss Regt CSA Aug 1, 1862	Pvt John Cooper Co. C 27 La Inf CSA Sep 12, 1862
Charles Couch Co. E 28 La Inf CSA Jul 28, 1862	Pvt. Allen F. Cryer Co. C 27 La Inf CSA 1862	Pvt James Cummings Co. A 28 La Inf CSA Jul 6, 1862
Pvt William N Davis Co. F 28 La Inf CSA Jul 4, 1842	Pvt Jacques R Devillier Co. D 27 La Inf CSA Dec 10, 1825 Jul 18, 1862	Pvt Adolphe Fontenot Co. K 28 La Inf CSA Jul 15, 1862
Pvt Emile Fontenot Co. A 28 La Inf CSA Jul 17, 1862	Pvt Thomas Franklin Co. C 27 La Inf CSA Jul 2, 1862	Pvt F. B. French Co. A La 27 Inf CSA Aug 19, 1862
Corp Joseph G. Goldman [Joseph Garland Goldman] Co. B 28 La Inf CSA [Jul 3] 1862	Pvt Alcie Guillory Co. K 28 La Inf CSA 1862	Pvt Issac Hall Co. E 27 La Inf CSA Jul 20, 1862
Pvt Alexandre P. Hebert Co. K 28 La Inf CSA Jul 2, 1862	Pvt Joseph Iles Co. I 28 La Inf CSA Jul 9, 1862	Pvt Michel Janisse Co. I 28 La Inf CSA Jul 9, 1862
Pvt Joseph S. Jeansonne Co. K 29 La Inf CSA 1862	Pvt W. C. Jennings Co. I 18 La.Inf CSA Jul 14, 1862	Pvt Marshall Jones Co. F 27 La Inf CSA Jul 3, 1862
Pvt William E. Jordan Co. C 27 La Inf CSA [Aug] 1862	Pvt Eloi Ladin Landry Co. K 28 La Inf CSA Jul 6, 1862	Pvt George W. Lee Co. B 28 La Inf CSA [Jul] 1862
Pvt John E. Lewis Co. C 27 La Inf CSA [Jul] 1862	5th Serg Luke Lyons Co. I 28 La Inf CSA Aug 17, 1862	Pvt Auguste Mollinau Co. A 28 La Inf CSA Jul 17, 1862
Pvt Pierre A. Nereaux [Pierre Aubrey Nereaux] Co. D 27 La Inf CSA Jul 21, 1862	Pvt Eugene Olivier Co. K 28 La Inf CSA Jul 23, 1862 [bur. Soldiers Rest, Vicksburg]	Pvt Wilkinson Rains Co. B 28 La Inf CSA Jul 13 1862
Pvt Victor Richard Co. A 28 La Inf CSA Jul 18, 1862	Pvt Jose Rock Co. D [should be Co. B] 28 La Inf CSA Oct 5, 1862	Pvt Andre Rome Co. E 28 La Inf CSA Aug 4, 1862
Pvt Victor Rome Co. E 28 La Inf CSA Aug 19, 1862	Pvt Joseph Sanders Co. I 28 La Inf CSA Sep 17, 1862	Pvt Napoleon Sims Co. B CSA Jul 5, 1862
Pvt Reuben Slack Co. C 27 La Inf CSA Jul 3, 1862	Pvt Theogene Stelly Co. K 28 La Inf CSA Jul 29, 1862	Pvt Elisha Stuckey 46 Miss Inf Co. B CSA July 4, 1862
Pvt A. B. Tippit 27 La Inf Co. E CSA May 27, 1862	Pvt Benjamin Usery 27 La Inf Co. F CSA July 3, 1862	Pvt William H. Wagnon 28 La Inf Co. B CSA Aug 6, 1862
Pvt Hugh Woods Co. E 28 La Inf CSA Sep 17, 1862	Unknown Confederate Soldier
Names of CSA soldiers interred at Cooper Wells who have no memorial markers in above grouping. Antill, Albert, Pvt., 26 La, Co. H. He died 8 Oct 1862. Arthur, J. M., Pvt., 17 La, Co. H. He enlisted 12 Oct 1861; died17 Oct 1862 at Mississippi Springs. Babineau, A., Pvt., 26 La, Co. A. He enlisted 10 Mar 1862; died 30 Jul 1862 at Mississippi Springs. Dupre, Jean Baptite, no record found. Ellender, Henry, no record found. Ewing, John, Pvt., 17 La, Co. K. He enlisted 30 Sep 1861; died 3 Oct 1862 at Mississippi Springs. Forestier, Caesar, no record found. Guillot, Joseph, Pvt., 26 La, Co. D. He enlisted 12 Mar 1862; died 26 Jul 1862 at Mississippi Springs. Hutchinson, Adolf, no record found. Thornton, J. M., Pvt., 17 La, Co. G. He enlisted 20 Sep 1861; d. 11 Jul 1862 at Mississippi Springs. Wimberly, R. L., Pvt., 16 La, Co. I. He enlisted 1 Apr 1862; d. 11 Jun 1862 at Mississippi Springs. Wood, Warren, Pvt., 46 Miss, Co. A. He enlisted 9 May 1862; died 10 Aug 1862 at Mississippi Springs. Other Cooper Wells CSA soldiers who were interred elsewhere. Clark, Thomas, Pvt., 39 Miss, Co. G. He enlisted 1 May 1862; died 2 Aug 1863 at Ole Miss, Oxford, Miss.; bur Ole Miss. Cooper, Jackson, Pvt., 28 Ala, Co. G. He died 23 Aug 1862 at CSA Hospital; bur. Okolona Rest. Dugas, Joseph, Pvt., 28 La, Co. H. He enlisted 17 Jul 1862; died 8 Sep 1862 at Vicksburg; bur Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss.

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