1821 - 1895 Person Name: Henry Coppée Author of "Safe upon the billowy deep" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 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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