Introduction

Biography

Coppee at­tend­ed Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, New Ha­ven, Con­nec­ti­cut, for two years, worked as a ci­vil en­gin­eer, and gra­du­at­ed from the Unit­ed States Mi­li­ta­ry Aca­de­my at West Point, New York, in 1845.

He served in the Me­xi­can-Am­er­ican War as a lieu­ten­ant, and was made a bre­vet cap­tain for gal­lan­try in the Bat­tles of Con­tre­ras and Chu­ru­bus­co.

After the war, he was a pro­fess­or of Eng­lish at West Point (1850–55), and pro­fess­or of Eng­lish li­te­ra­ture and his­to­ry at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia (1855–66).

Works

• Elements of Lo­gic (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: E. H. Bu­tler, 1858)
• A Gal­le­ry of Fa­mous Eng­lish and Am­er­ican Po­ets (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: E. H. But­ler, 1859)
• A Gal­le­ry of Dis­ting­uished En­glish and Am­er­ican Fe­male Po­ets (Phil­adel­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: E. H. But­ler, 1860)
• A trans­la­tion of Mar­mont’s Es­prit des In­sti­tu­tions Mi­li­taires, 1862
• Field Ma­nu­al of Courts-Mar­tial (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: J. B. Lip­pin­cott, 1863)
• The Field Ma­nu­al for Bat­tal­ion Drill (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: J. B. Lip­pin­cott, 1864)
• Grant and His Cam­paigns: A Mi­li­ta­ry Bio­gra­phy (New York, C. B. Ri­chard­son, 1866)
• Songs of Praise and Po­ems of De­vo­tion in the Chris­tian Cen­tu­ries (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: E. H. But­ler, 1866)
• Life and Ser­vices of Gen. U. S. Grant (New York: Ri­chard­son & Com­pa­ny, 1868)
• English Li­ter­ature, Con­sid­ered as an In­ter­pre­ter of Eng­lish His­to­ry (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Clax­ton, Rem­son & Haf­fel­fin­ger, 1873)
• Gold­en Wed­ding of Hon. and Mrs. Asa Pack­er, 1878
• History of the Ci­vil War in Am­er­ica, by the Comte de Pa­ris (ed­it­or) (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: J. H. Coates, 1875–88)
• History of the Con­quest of Spain by the Arab-Moors (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Li­ttle, Brown, 1892)
• General Tho­mas (New York: D. Ap­ple­ton, 1897)