Misc. Documents: Power of Attorney of Captain Thomas Benton Coopwood.

Source: Family History Collection of Thomas Ivey Clarke.

Submitted for inclusion in USGenweb Project Archives by Thomas Ivey 
Clarke <Scribe10@bellsouth.net>

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The following document was written by Aberdeen, Monroe County, Ms. 
Attorney Thomas Benton Coopwood shortly before boarding the train with 
his Civil War unit, Co. L (Monroe Rangers)Twenty-Fourth Regt., Infantry.  
He died a year later during the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky.

Power of Attorney

Aberdeen: September 21, 1861

Know all men by these presents:
That I Thomas Coopwood of the County of Monroe and State of Mississippi, 
now being engaged in the services of the Confederate States of America, 
for and during the continuance of the war now existing between the United 
States and the Confederacy, and having much private business in this 
state and Louisiana, which will require attention, and for which purpose 
and that prudent care may be taken of my private affairs, I do hereby 
make, ordain and appoint William C.  Coopwood of Chickasaw County and 
David Clarke of Monroe County, Mississippi, my true and lawful attorneys 
in fact and in law, with full powers and authority over all species of 
property owned by me, whether real, personal, or mixed.  This power is 
intended to cover all my interests in lands held and owned with Governor 
John A. Winston and others, and with Samuel C. McPherson in the State of 
Louisiana, as well as all my personal property in Negroes, Crops, etc. 
in that state, and to do all other acts in the premises, that I myself 
could do.

                                               Thomas Coopwood {seal}