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Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb

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Born:
April 10, 1823

Birthplace: Cherry Hill, Jefferson County, Georgia

Father: John Addison Cobb 1788 – 1855
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​

Mother: Sarah Robinson Rootes 1792 – 1863
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​

Wife: Marion McHenry Lumpkin 1822 – 1897
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​
Married: January 8, 1844 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia

Children:

Lucy Cobb 1844 – 1857​
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​
Sarah Addison “Sally” Cobb 1846 – 1915​
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​
Callendar “Callie” McHenry Cobb Hull 1848 – 1911
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(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​
Joseph Henry Lumpkin Cobb 1850 – 1851​
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​
Thomas Reade Roots Cobb Jr. 1852 – 1853​
(Buried: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia)​
Marion Thomas “Birdie” Cobb 1860 – 1919​
(Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia)​

Education:

1841: Graduated from Franklin College​

Occupation:
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1849 – 1857: Reporter for Georgia State Supreme Court​
1857 – 1861: Attorney in Athens, Georgia​
1861: Delegate to Georgia State Secession Convention​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Colonel of Cobb's Georgia Legion​
1862: Participated in the Seven Days Campaign​
1862: Participated in the Second Battle of Bull Run​
1862: Participated in the Maryland Campaign​
1862: Brigadier General in the Confederate Army
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1862: Killed during the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia​

Died:
December 13, 1862

Place of Death: Fredericksburg, Virginia

Cause of Death: Bled to death from damage to Femoral Artery

Age a time of Death: 39 years old

Burial Place: Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, Georgia

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Thomas R. R. Cobb: The Making of a Southern Nationalist by William B. McCash

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Review by Kevin M. Derby
Often lost in the shadow of his more prominent brother Howell, Thomas Cobb ranks as one of the more interesting founders of the Confederacy. William McCash looked at his life and activities in this biography and found Cobb to be a representative Southerner of his generation. McCash shed some light on Cobb's family life, political career, legal scholarship, defense of slavery and his religion, showing how his evangelicalism helped reinforce other parts of his thinking and public actions. While McCash did not present Cobb as the pious hypocrite that others--mainly William C. Davis in his study of the Confederacy's founding--have, the man simply took himself too seriously and comes off as self-righteous. McCash presented a memorable take on Cobb as a defender of slavery but could have done more at looking at him as a slaveholder and I rolled my eyes a few times at the way McCash seemed to buy into Cobb presenting himself as a paternal owner. In McCash's defense, the sources might not have been there to really offer much insight on that front. McCash bounced back to close the book on a strong note with an excellent overview of Cobb's role in the founding of the Confederacy and Georgia's secession. Looking at Cobb's brief military career, McCash offered a judicious take on his strengths and weaknesses as a military leader. Despite some flaws, this is an excellent book shedding light on an important--if simply not likeable or admirable--southern conservative who put his heart, mind and soul into the Confederate cause. McCash showed how Cobb, like many other Southerners of his generation, moved from a unionist to a secessionist and helped launch a war that brought his culture and class crashing down.



Cheers,
USS ALASKA
 
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