Wow ..... Lt John Bell Hood scouted with Lee for the Fort in Texas that would later be named after him as a General Hood in the Confederate Army ? Same location ??
Love reading this stuff..... thank you.
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.