Details make the book.(Cobb's Legion Cavalry: A History and Roster of the Ninth Georgia Volunteers in the Civil War)(Brief article)(Book review)

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Cobb's Legion Cavalry: A History and Roster of the Ninth Georgia Volunteers in the Civil War, by Harriet Bey Mesic, McFarland Publishers

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The 9th Georgia Volunteer Cavalry, more famously known as Cobb's Legion Cavalry after the organizer of the mixed force by which it was originally formed, Colonel Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, served throughout the war with exceptional distinction. The 9th frequently headed Rebel charges in most of the war's greatest cavalry battles, but ended up surrendering after Appomattox.

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