Consolidated Military Officer's File of George A Cobham, District of Columbia, 1864

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Consolidated Military Officer's File of George A Cobham, District of Columbia, 1864

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SNAC Resource ID: 11657816

National Archives at Washington, D.C

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Cobham, George Ashworth, Jr., 1925-1864

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Cobham was born in Liverpool, England, and migrated to the United States with his family in 1836. Settling in Warren County, Pennsylvania, Cobham attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, then worked as a contractor in the western part of the state. He married Annie Page of Warren, Pennsylvania about 1858. They had one son, Frederick P. Cobham, born 1859. Early in the Civil War, Cobham began recruiting in Warren County following the Union disaster at the First Battle of Bull Run....