Elijah Cobb

In 1860 he was a married 32 year old farmer at Corn Grove in Calhoun County, AL. He enlisted at Fair Play, AL on 6 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot through his back or side and left arm in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and was captured there.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 12 October, sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on the 13th, and transferred to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange the next day. He was furloughed home on 28 October and returned to duty on 5 November 1863. He was fined three months' wages by a court martial (charges not found) in July or August 1864, and was afterward absent without leave into October, then under arrest. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a farm worker in Calhoun County.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as missing in action. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Susan Hall (1830-1866) in August 1849 and they had 6 children. He married again, Evaline Coats (1849-) in April 1868 and they had a son.

His brother Elias William Cobb (1833-1911) was also in Company K, but probably not at Sharpsburg.

04/04/1829 in AL

11/1877; in AL; burial in White Plains Community Cemetery, White Plains, AL