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Federal (USV)

Private

James H. Cobb

(1817 - 1898)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 43 year old laborer in Westbrook, Cumberland County, ME. He gave his occupation as stone quarrier when he enlisted on 16 August 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 5 November 1862 (or 25 January 1863).

After the War

By 1880 he was working on a "ledge" (or lodge?) and lived in a boarding house with his wife and son James Jr. in Westbrook, ME.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General,2 as John H. Cobb, and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth P. Morrill (1815-) in June 1840 and they had 6 children.

Birth

01/01/1817; Westbrook, ME

Death

11/15/1898; Westbrook, ME; burial in Highland Lake Cemetery, Westbrook, ME

Notes

1   Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02  [AotW citation 6668]

2   State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, Appendix D, pg. 272  [AotW citation 29296]

3   State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000  [AotW citation 29297]