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Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
T. R. R. Cobb by Horace James Bradley
Deputy from Georgia to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
In office February viii, 1861 – February 17, 1862
Preceded past	New cosmos
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	(1823-04-ten)Apr 10, 1823 Jefferson County, Georgia
Died	December 13, 1862(1862-12-13) (anile 39) Fredericksburg, Virginia
Nationality	American
Relations	Howell Cobb (blood brother)
Alma mater	Franklin College
Military service
Allegiance	Amalgamated States
Co-operative/service	Confederate States Regular army
Years of service	1861–1862
Rank	Brigadier General
Commands	Cobb's Legion Cobb's Brigade
Battles/wars	American Civil War Seven Days Battles Battle of Malvern Hill 2nd Battle of Bull Run Battle of Antietam Battle of Fredericksburg †

Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (April ten, 1823 – Dec xiii, 1862) was an American lawyer, author, pol, and Confederate States Army officeholder, killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. He was the brother of noted Confederate statesman Howell Cobb.

Early life, education and marriage [edit]

Cobb was born in 1823 in Jefferson County, Georgia, to John A. Cobb and Sarah (Rootes) Cobb. He was the younger brother of Howell Cobb. Cobb graduated in 1841 from Franklin College^[ane] (present-day University of Georgia), where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Club. He was admitted to the bar in 1842.

He married Marion Lumpkin, who was the girl of the Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin and his wife. Merely three of their children lived past childhood: Callender (Callie), who married Augustus Longstreet Hull; Sarah A. (Sally), who married Henry Jackson, the son of Henry Rootes Jackson; and Marion (Birdie), who married Michael Hoke Smith. The Lucy Cobb Institute, which he founded, was named for a daughter who died shortly earlier the school opened. His niece Mildred Lewis Rutherford served the school for over forty years in various capacities.^[2]

Political career [edit]

From 1849 to 1857, he was a reporter of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He was an agog secessionist, and was a delegate to the Secession Convention. He is best known for his treatise on the law of slavery titled An Enquiry into the Police force of Negro Slavery in the United States of America (1858), a passage of which reads:

[T]his enquiry into the physical, mental, and moral development of the negro race seems to indicate them clearly, equally particularly fitted for a laborious class. The physical frame is capable of great and long-continued exertion. Their mental capacity renders them incapable of successful self-development, and even so adapts them for the direction of the wiser race. Their moral character renders them happy, peaceful, contented and cheerful in a status that would intermission the spirit and destroy the energies of the Caucasian or the native American.^[3]

Cobb's Inquiry represented the capstone of proslavery legal thought and has been chosen one of the nigh comprehensive American proslavery treatise.^[iv] Information technology drew together examples from world history of slavery, which he used to argue that slavery was shut to ubiquitous in human history and thus natural. He also drew on evidence of slavery's economic necessity and on and so popular ideas of "science," which supported white supremacy and slavery.^[five]

Cobb was also one of the founders of the University of Georgia School of Law, and served on the first Georgia code committee of 1858 and drafted what became the individual, penal, and civil police force portions of the Georgia Code of 1861, which was the first successfully enacted attempt at a comprehensive codification of the common constabulary anywhere in the The states.^[6] Information technology is the ancestor of today'southward Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Simultaneously, the Northern constabulary reformer David Dudley Field II was independently working in the same ambitious direction of trying to codify all of the common law into a coherent civil code, merely Field's proposed civil lawmaking was non actually enacted until 1866 in Dakota Territory, was belatedly enacted in 1872 in California, and was repeatedly rejected several times by his home country of New York and never enacted in that state. Unlike Field's largely race-neutral code, the original Georgia Code was strongly biased in favor of slavery and white supremacy, and even contained a presumption that blacks were prima facie slaves until proven otherwise.^[7] Georgia ultimately kept the Code after the Civil War merely revised it in 1867 and many more than times since, to purge the racism and pro-slavery bias inherent in the original text. A long-standing item in the code was the citizens' arrest law,^[8] which was added to the code in 1863 and remained unchanged until 2021 when the Georgia Full general Assembly concise the law^[nine] in response to critics who described the police as a contributor to the potential of corruption and racial bias after the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

Cobb served in the Confederate Congress, where for a fourth dimension he was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. He was also on the committee that was responsible for the drafting of the Confederate constitution.

American Ceremonious War [edit]

Cobb organized Cobb'south Legion in the belatedly summer of 1861 and was commissioned a colonel in the Confederate army on August 28, 1861. The Legion was assigned to the Regular army of Northern Virginia. It took heavy losses during the Maryland Campaign. He was promoted to brigadier full general on Nov 1, 1862, but this promotion was non confirmed by the Confederate Congress.^[1]

Death and legacy [edit]

At the Battle of Fredericksburg, he was mortally wounded in the thigh by a Spousal relationship artillery shell that burst inside the Stephens business firm virtually the Sunken Road on Marye's Heights. He bled to death from harm to the femoral artery on December 13, 1862.^[10] Some later accounts by veterans claim that the wounding was past burglarize fire and that a Amalgamated soldier may have been responsible.^[xi] He is buried at Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens, Georgia.

The T. R. R. Cobb Firm, where Thomas Cobb and his wife Marion lived in Athens, Ga, is now a business firm museum. Originally constructed across Prince Avenue from its electric current location, information technology was moved to Rock Mountain Park, Rock Mountain, Georgia, where it was partially reassembled about 1990. Stone Mountain Park had hoped to restore the house, but the projection fell through. Then, it was transported back to Athens where information technology was reassembled and underwent an extensive restoration. The house is now an operational museum owned past the Watson-Brown Foundation.

Works [edit]

• Assimilate of the Statute Laws of Georgia (1851)[i]
• Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United states of america (1858)[2]
• Historical Sketch of Slavery, from the Earliest Periods (1859)[3]
• The Code of the Country of Georgia (1861) AKA The Code of 1863 because though published in 1861, the Georgia General Assembly did non pass it till 1863.[4]
• The Lawmaking of the State of Georgia (1873)
• The Colonel (1897)

See also [edit]

• List of American Ceremonious State of war generals (Acting Amalgamated)
• Listing of American Civil State of war generals (Confederate)
• List of signers of the Georgia Ordinance of Secession

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil State of war High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1., p. 592.
2. ^ Thomas, Frances Taliaferro; Koch, Mary Levin (2009) [1992]. A Portrait of Historic Athens & Clarke Canton (Second ed.). Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Printing. p. 130. ISBN978-0-8203-3044-0.
3. ^ Morris, Thomas D., Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860, University of North Carolina Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8078-4817-3., p. 18.
4. ^ Alfred Fifty. Brophy, University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (2016): 227-53.
5. ^ Alfred L. Brophy, Antislavery Women and the Origins of American Jurisprudence, Texas Constabulary Review 94 (2015): 115, 123-25.
6. ^ McCash, William B (1978). "Thomas Cobb and the Codified of Georgia Law". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 62 (1): nine–23. JSTOR 40580436.
7. ^ Andrew P. Morriss, "Georgia Code (1861)," in Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, And Historical Encyclopedia, vol. two, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007), 314-315.
8. ^ Wollan, Malia (May 6, 2016). "How to Make a Citizen's Arrest". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
9. ^ In Ahmaud Arbery's Proper name, Georgia Repeals Denizen'south Arrest Constabulary
10. ^ O'Reilly, p. 296; Eicher, p. 592.
11. ^ Controversies about the death of T. R. R. Cobb Archived August 22, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

References [edit]

• Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War Loftier Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-one.
• McCash, William B. 1983. Thomas R.R. Cobb: The Making of a Southern Nationalist. Macon, GA: Mercer Academy Press.
• O'Reilly, Francis Augustín, The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock, Louisiana Land University Printing, 2003, ISBN 0-8071-3154-vii.
• Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8160-1055-4.
• Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Printing, 1959. ISBN 978-0-8071-0823-9.

External links [edit]

• Marion Lumpkin Cobb, Wife Of General Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
• Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb at Notice a Grave
• Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb at the New Georgia Encyclopedia

Political offices
New creation	Deputy from Georgia to the Provisional Congress of the Amalgamated States 1861–1862	Position abolished

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