Thomas Reade Roots Cobb was born in Jefferson County, Georgia April 10th 1823, the son of John A and Sarah [Rootes] Cobb. He graduated from Franklin College in 1841 and was admitted to the bar in 1842. Cobb reported for the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1849 through 1857. He was a fervent secessionist and served as a delegate to the Georgia Secession Convention. He was also one of the founders of the University Of Georgia School Of Law.
When the Civil War started Cobb served in the Confederate Congress, where he was the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and helped with the drafting of the Confederate constitution. In 1861 he organized Cobb’s Legion. Cobb was commissioned the Legion’s Colonel August 28th 1861. They saw heavy action in the Battles of Seven Days, Second Manassas, and Antietam, which prompted Cobb’s promotion to Brigadier General in November 1862. He still hadn't received a confirmation of the promotion when he was mortally wounded.
Cobb was carried inside the Stephens house near the Sunken Road on Marye’s Heights during the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13th 1862 after an artillery shell exploded near his position. A piece of the shrapnel damaged the femoral artery in Cobb’s thigh and he bleed to death. He is buried in the Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens, Georgia.
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