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- MILITARY RECORD OF PHARAOH ARTHUR COBB By P. L. Cobb
Pharaoh Arthur Cobb, when he joined the Second Tennessee Cavalry at the first of the Civil War, had previous military experience in the War with Mexico, having volunteered June 10, 1846, for one year and was enrolled in Company K of William R. Caswell in the First Regiment of Tennessee volunteers, commanded by Thomas Mount. He was honorably discharged at new Orleans, May 31, 1847, his year of service having expired, but the real reason for his coming home was a severe illness that reduced him from 160 to less than 100 pound in weight.
The discharge states that he was born in Hawkins County, Tennessee, is nineteen years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, dark complexion, hazel eyes, dark hair, and by occupation, when enlisted, a farmer, given at New Orleans, 28th day of May, 1847; approved by Wm. R. Raswell, Capt. Commanding Company.
The period of the Civil War was told me in several conversations, much of it after he was eighty years old. I have not tried to verify the data taken from these conversations. He talked freely when questions were asked, but he did not volunteer information. He was always spoken of as a fine soldier and a good commanding officer.
He enlisted in the Second Tennessee Cavalry but always claimed that it was the first organized, but that the other regiment beat them to the number. He was in the first Tennessee regiment that went to Mexico and was anxious to have the same honor in the Civil War.
As told to me:
Officers of the Regiment when it was reorganized were
1. Col. Ashby
2. Lieut-Col. Hal Gillespie
3. Major P. A. Cobb Officers of Company E when first put in the Brigade, were
1. Captain Bob Smith
2. 1st Lieut. P. A. Cobb
3. 2nd Lieut. John Jarnigen
4. 3rd Lieut. Nep Moore
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1827 - 1914 (86 years)