Henry Coppee

Born: Oc­to­ber 13, 1821, Sa­van­nah, Georg­ia.
Died: March 22, 1895, Beth­le­hem, Penn­syl­van­ia.
Buried: Nisky Hill Cem­e­te­ry, Beth­le­hem, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Coppee at­tend­ed Yale Un­i­ver­si­ty, New Ha­ven, Con­nec­ti­cut, for two years, worked as a ci­vil en­gin­eer, and grad­u­at­ed from the Unit­ed States Mil­i­ta­ry Acad­e­my at West Point, New York, in 1845. He served in the Mex­i­can-Amer­i­can War as a lieu­ten­ant, and was made a bre­vet cap­tain for gal­lan­try in the Bat­tles of Con­tre­ras and Chu­ru­bus­co. He went on to serve as a pro­fess­or of Eng­lish at West Point (1850-55), and pro­fess­or of Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture and his­to­ry at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia (1855-66). His works in­clude:

Elements of Lo­gic (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: E. H. But­ler & Com­pa­ny, 1858)
A Gal­le­ry of Fa­mous Eng­lish and Amer­i­can Po­ets (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: E. H. But­ler & Com­pa­ny, 1859)
A Gal­le­ry of Dis­tin­guished Eng­lish and Amer­i­can Fe­male Po­ets (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: E. H. But­ler & Com­pa­ny, 1860)
A trans­la­tion of Mar­mont’s Es­prit des In­sti­tu­tions Mil­i­taires, 1862
Field Man­u­al of Courts-Mart­ial (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: J. B. Lip­pin­cott, 1863)
The Field Man­u­al for Bat­tal­ion Drill (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: J. B. Lip­pin­cott, 1864)
Grant and His Cam­paigns: A Mil­i­tary Bi­o­gra­phy (New York, C. B. Rich­ard­son, 1866)
Songs of Praise and Po­ems of De­vo­tion in the Chris­tian Cen­tu­ries (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: E. H. But­ler & Com­pa­ny, 1866)
Life and Ser­vic­es of Gen. U. S. Grant (New York: Rich­ard­son and Com­pa­ny, 1868)
English Lit­er­a­ture, Con­sid­ered as an In­ter­pre­ter of Eng­lish His­to­ry (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Clax­ton, Rem­son & Haf­fel­fing­er, 1873)
Golden Wed­ding of Hon. and Mrs. Asa Pack­er, 1878
History of the Ci­vil War in Amer­i­ca, by the Comte de Par­is (ed­it­or) (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: J. H. Coates & Com­pa­ny, 1875-88)
History of the Con­quest of Spain by the Ar­ab-Moors (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Lit­tle, Brown, 1892)
General Tho­mas (New York: D. Ap­ple­ton, 1897)

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