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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Thomas R. R. Cobb. (search)
Thomas R. R. Cobb. Member of the secession Convention of Georgia, of the Provisional Congress, and a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army. Extracts from letters to his wife, February 3, 1861—December 10, 1862. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. The following appeared in the columns of the Athens, Georgia, Banner, during the months of February, March and April, 1897. They were sent to us a little later by Mr. A. L. Hull, of Athens, Ga., who married a daughter of General Cobb. Whilst the expressions of General Cobb are his own and may in no wise be endorsed by the editor, yet, from a man admittedly so able and fearless, and so thoroughly earnest and devoted, they have value in aiding in a clear analyses of the characters of the men of the period, and of their agency in determining its momentous events, as well as in definitely fixing these last. General Cobb, a brother of the statesman, Howell Cobb, was born in Jefferson county, Ga., in 1823, an