sentences:  Contemporary 19th-century accounts of cooping, independent literature describing Poe's death, do not describe cooping in relation to voter fraud but instead describe press gangs that used cooping to trick unwilling men to enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War.One such claim of cooping of enlistees was made in a letter from Brigadier General Edward Winslow Hincks read by the Clerk of the House of Representatives in 1865.Brigadier General Hincks, who was in charge of the enlistment of men in New York, blamed the poor quality of enlisted men on cooping, whereby the men were "cooped up", plied with drink to the point of stupefaction, and tricked into enlisting.