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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 11 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
as born at Cherry Hill, Jefferson county, September 7, 1815. His father, Col. John A. Cobb, was from Greenville, N. C., and his mother was Sarah Rootes, of Fredericirginia, was a distinguished congressman from 1807 to 181 2. His father was John A. Cobb, of North Carolina, who married Sarah Rootes, of Virginia, and moving to Geo ruin. Alexander H. Stephens, who opposed secession just as earnestly, compared Cobb to Peter the Hermit, and said that the success of secession in Georgia was in gruence as an orator. On the 28th of August, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of Cobb's legion. In the battles around Richmond in 1862, at Second Manassas, and in thof this battle, which appears in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, said: General Cobb, who was wounded by a musket ball in the calf of the leg, died shortly aftervidence was with us, and daily prayed for His interposition in our behalf. General Cobb was a zealous member of the Presbyterian church and a very earnest Christian