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Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 12th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted in the 12th Georgia Infantry, date and Company not known.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
Died at David Smith's Farm, Md. Probably buried originally on the battlefield at Sharpsburg and reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.
References & notes
Burial information from Pruett,1 who also has him as F.W. Cobb. Possibly Frank Cobb, 10th Georgia Infantry. He was killed in action after August 1862, place not given.
Death
Date not known; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD
1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4615]