Benjamin L. Mobley, farmer and Confederate soldier, was apparently born in Burke County, Georgia. He and his brother James Madison Mobley (b. 1840) enlisted as privates August 1, 1861 in Company E of Cobb's Legion, Georgia Volunteers. Their company, also called the Poythress Volunteers, served with the infantry battalion of Cobb's Legion for the duration of the Civil War, spending much of the time in Virginia. After the war the Mobley brothers returned to their homes near Waynesboro, Georgia. It is not known what became of Benjamin L. Mobley. James M. Mobley lived on in Waynesboro until at least 1907. By then he had a wife and two children. He applied for an indigent pension, which was refused on the grounds that he was not legally indigent.
From the description of Benjamin L. Mobley letters, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77965162
