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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Lewis M. Cobb

(? - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Calhoun, GA on 29 April 1861 and mustered as 2nd Sergeant of Company F, 4th Georgia Infantry. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 28 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was one of the officers of the regiment recognized by Brigadier General Doles as having "commended themselves to my special notice by their gallant and meritorious conduct" in Maryland, and was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Thomas 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The Doles reference from D.H. Hill's after-action report.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Thomas, Henry Walter, History of the Doles-Cook Brigade, Atlanta: Franklin Printing & Publishing Co., 1903, pp. 146 - 148 [AotW citation 2641]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34020]

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