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Douglas Hancock Cooper (November 1, 1815 – April 29, 1879) was an American politician, soldier, Indian Agent in what is now Oklahoma, and Confederate general during the American Civil War . Early life and career. Cooper was born November 1, 1815, most likely in Amite County, Mississippi.
A Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian agent and a Confederate Civil War general, Douglas Hancock Cooper was born to privilege on November 1, 1815, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. He was a son of Dr. David Cooper and Sarah Hancock Davenport and attended the University of Virginia.
Douglas Hancock Cooper was born November 1, 1815 in Amite County, Mississippi. His father was both a physician and a Baptist minister, and Cooper was encouraged to pursue a higher education. He attended the University of Virginia from 1832 to 1834, along with other future Confederate generals Lafayette McLaws and John B. Magruder.
Aided by their pro-Confederate agent, Col. Douglas H. Cooper, as well as by the fact that both nations bordered North Texas, the Choctaws and Chickasaws signed a joint treaty of alliance with Confederate Indian agent Albert Pike and promised to raise military units for the war effort.
General Douglas H. Cooper (1815–1879) At the start of the American Civil War, the United States had abandoned the Five Civilized Tribes so for cultural and economic reasons, all of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory opted to side with the Confederate States of America who had offered them protection, economic resources ...
- July 17, 1863( 1863-07-17)
- Union victory
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Prior to the Civil War, he served as U.S. Agent to the Choctaws in the Oklahoma Indian Territory. In 1855, he successfully negotiated a treaty between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations and organized a militia at Fort Washita, Oklahoma. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861,...
Douglas Hancock Cooper (November 1, 1815 – April 29, 1879) was an American politician, soldier, Indian Agent in what is now Oklahoma, and Confederate general during the American Civil War.
