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After six or seven months of very onerous and important duty there, General Copeland was ordered to report to General Rosecrans, in St. Louis, Mo., and on reporting was ordered to command the post and military prison at Alton, I11., which command he held until the close of the war.
George A. Ouster was born in Ohio, and appointed from that State to the Military Academy at West Point. On his graduation he was assigned as a Second Lieutenant to the 5th United States Cavalry, June 24th, 1861.
Although not a native of Michigan at the time of his appointment to the academy, his parents were residents of Monroe, in this State, during the early part of the war, and probably at the time of his assignment to active service with the army.
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