Raynors HCA 2015-05
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COBB, Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb (1807-1864) was an American politician who served the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1847 and 1861. Cobb was a strong Unionist and opponent of secession, and when Alabama did secede in 1861, he withdrew from Congress only reluctantly. He was elected to the Second Confederate Congress in 1863 amid growing antiwar sentiment. He however did not arrive to take his seat, and was subsequently expelled by a unanimous vote for his avowed Unionist sentiments. Cobb was killed by the accidental discharge of his own pistol while putting up a fence on his plantation near Bellefonte on November 1, 1864. He was buried in the family cemetery on the estate of his brother, Bryant Anderson Cobb, in neighboring Madison County. Autograph Letter Signed “W.R.W. Cobb,” House of Rep, Washington, January 21 (18)53, 2pp., VG. Cobb is discussing legal and monetary issues including “in relations to Mr. Parkers disposition of the negroes in which you express your opinion and that of sister Chasity that it would be best to have them sold, that is my opinion too ...”
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