Richard Venable Cobb

In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with his parents, brother William (1842-1862), and 8 slaves on their farm near Gainesville in Hall County, GA. He enrolled at Camp Stephens in Griffin, GA on 9 September 1861 and mustered the next day as 2nd Lieutenant of Company D, 27th Georgia Infantry. He was wounded in the right leg in action at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right arm, the bone broken, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was treated in a US field hospital on the battlefield, paroled there on 27 September, then admitted to the US Army's Summit House General Hospital in West Philadelphia, PA on 1 October. On 5 December he was transferred for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 19 December and furloughed home for 40 days on Christmas Eve 1862.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 2 January 1863 and was with his company until wounded for the third time, in the left arm or hand at Bentonville, NC on 19 March 1865.

In 1870 he was a "retired merchant" in Gainesville, GA and in 1880 was a painter there. By 1900 he was painting houses in Atlanta, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online via fold3, Henderson,2 and the Confederate Officers Card Index. He's also on a casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy   of 18 November 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E Acker (1842-1937) in December 1866 and they had 6 children.

His brother William served in the 11th Georgia Infantry and was 2nd Sergeant of Company A when he was mortally wounded at Manassas, VA in August 1862.

08/09/1837; Gainesville, GA

11/28/1906; Atlanta, GA; burial in Alta Vista Cemetery, Gainesville, GA