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Portrait of Howell Cobb (Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
Posted inBiographical US Civil War

General Cobb To Command Georgia Forces

Gen. Howell Cobb is now in Atlanta. He has been assigned to the duty of organizing 8,000 troops for service in this State, and will command the entire State force.…
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