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Thomas Willis Cobb (1784 – February 1, 1830) was a United States representative and Senator from Georgia. Biography. Born in Columbia County, Georgia, he pursued preparatory studies, and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Lexington, Georgia.
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Thomas Cobb may refer to: Thomas R. Cobb (1828–1892), U.S....
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Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (April 10, 1823 – December 13,...
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Cobb’s wife was Mary Cobb. It is suspected that the city of Marietta is named after her. Thomas Willis Cobb died in Greensborough, Georgia, on February 1, 1830 and was layed to rest in the Greensboro Cemetery. The following epitaph is inscribed over his grave: Sacred To the Memory of The Honorable Thomas W. Cobb, Who departed this life On ...
Thomas Cobb may refer to: Thomas R. Cobb (1828–1892), U.S. Representative from Indiana. Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823–1862), American lawyer, author, politician, and Confederate general. Thomas W. Cobb (1784–1830), United States Representative and Senator from Georgia.
Jul 20, 2022 · From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. This article is about the United States Representative and Senator from Georgia. For the American Civil War General, see Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb. Thomas Willis Cobb (1784 - February 1, 1830) was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia.
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- Columbia County, GA, United States
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Cobb was born in 1823 in Jefferson County, Georgia, to John A. Cobb and Sarah (Rootes) Cobb. He was the younger brother of Howell Cobb. Cobb graduated in 1841 from Franklin College (present-day University of Georgia), where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. He was admitted to the bar in 1842. He married Marion Lumpkin, who was the ...
From 1849 to 1857, he was a reporter of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He was an ardent secessionist, and was a delegate to the Secession Convention. He is best known for his treatise on the law of slavery titled An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America(1858), a passage of which reads: Cobb's Inquiry represented the c...
Cobb organized Cobb's Legion in the late summer of 1861 and was commissioned a colonel in the Confederate army on August 28, 1861. The Legion was assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia. It took heavy losses during the Maryland Campaign. He was promoted to brigadier general on November 1, 1862, but this promotion was not confirmed by the Confeder...
At the Battle of Fredericksburg, he was mortally wounded in the thigh by a Union artillery shell that burst inside the Stephens house near the Sunken Road on Marye's Heights. He bled to death from damage to the femoral artery on December 13, 1862. Some later accounts by veterans claim that the wounding was by rifle fire and that a Confederate soldi...
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 Code of the State of Georgia (1861) AKA The Code of 1863 because though published in 1861, the Georgia General Assemblydid not pass it till 1863.Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1.McCash, William B. 1983. Thomas R.R. Cobb: The Making of a Southern Nationalist.Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.O'Reilly, Francis Augustín, The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock, Louisiana State University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8071-3154-7.Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8160-1055-4.Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb at Find a GraveThomas Reade Rootes Cobb at the New Georgia EncyclopediaThomas Cobb was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where he spent most his childhood in the desert. He is the author of the novels Shavetail and Crazy Heart, as well as Acts of Contrition, a collection of short stories that won the 2002 George Garrett Fiction Prize.
Thomas Willis Cobb (1784-1 February 1830) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large district (DR) from 4 March 1817 to 3 March 1821 (succeeding Wilson Lumpkin and preceding Alfred Cuthbert) and from 4 March 1823 to 6 December 1824 (preceding Richard Henry Wilde), as...
