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Re: John E.Cooley Born 1828
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Harbard's Cooley's service file states his age at enlistment as eighteen (18). According to Confederate memoirs, men as old as John E. Cooley were frequently teased due to their advanced age. The two men named as members of state units could be of this age because they were essentially home guards.

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