Not quite. Camp Cooper was near Abilene while Fort Hood is between Austin and Waco. Still, another of those fascinating details. Like the one I ran across in the Grant biography where the best man and ushers as his wedding in Missouri would later surrender to him at Appomattox.
hmmm I got it mixed then.... seemed they left camp cooper to look for a fort site .... my bad, still good stuff.
BTTT !