Social Sciences and the Law

What made Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb famous?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/made-thomas-reade-rootes-cobb-famous-534787.html" >What made Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb famous?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

He edited 20 volumes of the Georgia supreme court reports (1849-57), prepared A Digest of the Statute Laws of the State of Georgia (1851), and compiled (1858-61) a new state criminal code. In the Georgia secession convention he was chairman of the committee that wrote a new state constitution (1861) and helped write the Confederate Constitution. In the Civil War he organized and led Cobb's Legion. Promoted to brigadier general in Nov., 1862 ...

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Cobb, Thomas Reade Rootes . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What is Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb renowned for? What has made Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb a notable person? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.