Headstone for Confederate general dedicated at Fort Washita (OK)
Confederate Brigadier General Douglas Hancock Cooper
A headstone dedication was held Saturday for Confederate Brigadier General Douglas Hancock Cooper at the Fort Washita Confederate Cemetery. The event was organized by Clem Vann Rogers, Camp 481 Sons of Confederate Veterans Oklahoma City.
Cooper also served in the Mexican-American War and he was a Federal Indian Agent for the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes.
Eric McBroom, commander of Oklahoma City camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, said this began as a project of Kevin Easterling, who is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
“General Cooper has never had a formal gravestone until the research and dedication of compatriot Kevin Easterling culminated in him acquiring one from the Veterans Administration - an unnecessary and unfortunately daunting task to undertake,” McBroom said. “Kevin has been recently honored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy with the Jefferson Davis award for his efforts to get General Cooper’s grave marked with full military honors. If it were not for him, we would not be here doing this today.
Easterling said that upon coming to Oklahoma in 1991 after Desert Storm, Dr. James Castor told him about General Cooper being in an unmarked grave. Easterling wanted to obtain a marker to pay respects to General Cooper, something that was never done.
“I decided about four years ago, I’m going to get the man a marker, one way or another,” Easterling said. “So, I went to …
Hopefully this is an Appropriate Ocassion to Speech-e-fye a bit. Many if not most Confederate and Union Generals were Mexican War Veterans, Acquaintances and remained Friends through a difficult 4 years of "CW".
Points 1 & 2 are historical, the others are my conjecturing ......
1st It was Not a "CW". because the South was Not Attempting to Overthrow the Union, exemplified in the New Lincoln DC government. So the "CW" was actually the War for Southern Independence"
2nd It was Not Treasonous for a State to Seeceed from the Union in 1860/61. No Southern politician or general was ever charged with Treason after the war ended, when All Power resided in DC with the Republican party.
3rd At Present ....
The Current Communist democRats and the Majority of the Current Quisling Republican rinoRats are Leading this USA into Bankruptcy. 37 Trillion in Debt does Not "Just Happen" out of a Genie Jar, It Happened in the Rat Party CON-gress..... which is sElected or Elected by We The People......
....... and "We The People" are "Irreconcilably Divided" on Basic Principles, with 20 million plus Illegals currently residing within.
4th That We No longer live in a "Republic" but We live in a "Demoncrazy" with the Balance of Power and Force determined by the DC Deep Statist Intel/Bureaucrazy, Judiciary, & Corporists/Banksters. Obiviously, Who Controls the WH is Vital.
5th as the USA is No longer a Republic, it has become an Empire certainly since WW2. The USA has also become Socialist, also since FDR as president forcealbly Confiscated the Gold Money of our ancestors, We The People.
USA became USSA and "Both" political parties embrace/defend Socialism, democRats moving Openly Communist.
So .... With Bankruptcy becoming Evident to The People, and Political ("Solutions") Divisions Widening, Will the States (mutually?) Seceed from one another ??? an Amicable Divorce or a Contested (CW) Divorce ???
The USSA Empire, historically, Will Cease to Exist, the Lands will Abide wilh an evolving populace and evolving political arrangements....Yet To Be Determined.