Thomas Read Rootes Cobb Letters, . 1855-1862

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Thomas Read Rootes Cobb Letters, . 1855-1862

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Thomas Read Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) was a lawyer of Georgia and later a Confederate brigadier general. The collection includes typed transcriptions, chiefly letters, 1858, from Cobb to William Letcher Mitchell (1805-1882), Georgia lawyer, educator, and engineer, written while Cobb was on a trip to New Orleans, up the Mississippi River, to New York City, and south through Virginia. The letters describe the journey and discuss religion and Presbyterian church affairs. Also included is an undated letter from Robert E. Lee to Cobb's brother, Major General Howell Cobb, on the death of Thomas Red Rootes Cobb, who was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862

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Thomas Read Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) was a lawyer of Georgia and later a Confederate brigadier general. He was killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. From the guide to the Thomas Read Rootes Cobb Letters, ., 1855-1862, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), lawyer and Brigadier General, born at Cherry Hill plantation in Jefferson County, Georgia. During the Civil War, he commanded Cobb...