Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb

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Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb

Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (born April 10, 1823 in Jefferson County , Georgia , †  December 13, 1862 in Fredericksburg , Virginia ) was the brother of Howell Cobb , author, politician and brigadier general of the Confederate Army in the Civil War .

Life

Cobb graduated in 1841 at the University of Georgia and from 1849 to 1857 he was rapporteur of the Supreme Court ( Supreme Court ) of the State of Georgia. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was a delegate from Georgia in the provisional Congress of the Confederate and chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. He then went to the fighting force as a Colonel, fought from June 25 to July 1, 1862 in the Seven Day Battle in Virginia and on August 30, 1862 in the Second Battle of the Bull Run , Manassas, Virginia.

In October 1862 he was promoted to brigadier general and took command of a brigade that was previously subordinate to his brother. He was killed on December 13, 1862, the third day of the Battle of Fredericksburg .

Works

  • Digest of the Statute Laws of Georgia (1851)
  • Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States (1858)
  • Historical Sketch of Slavery, from the Earliest Periods (1859)
  • The Colonel (1897)

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher: The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4 .
  • Richard N. Current: Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vols.) ( ISBN 0132759918 )
  • John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher: Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
  • Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cobb, Thomas Reade Rootes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Confederate General in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Jefferson County , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1862
Place of death Fredericksburg , Virginia