Robert H. Cobb

Birth Date

1836-05-21

Death Date

1914-07-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Eddyville, Kentucky, lawyer and soldier. Eddyville native. Married to Virginia Walker Cobb on August 3, 1865. Studied law at the University of Virginia from 1855 to 1856. Opened law practice in Eddyville from 1858 to 1861. First lieutenant in the Kentucky State Guard in May 1861. First lieutenant in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment in June 1861. Transferred to the light artillery service. Captain of Cobb's Battery from from 1861 to February 1864. Commissioned a major in the artillery, commanding Cobb's Battalion of Artillery from February 1864 to 1865.

KYR-0001-019-0049. John W. Leonard, ed., Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States (Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Co., 1902), 220; Find A Grave, "Capt Robert H Cobb, Sr (1836-1914)," Memorial #27252713, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27252713/robert-h-cobb (accessed March 21, 2018).

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