Athens, Dec. 19/60.
Dear Brother, Your appointments are received and a man sent around with hand bills to post them up in each county.
I have barely time to write this to get it into the mail.
A thousand cheers for So. Ca.! We have a torchlight procession tonight.
From Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1911.
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (April 10, 1823 – December 13, 1862) was an American slave owner, lawyer, author, politician, and Confederate States Army officer, killed in the Battle of Fredericksburg during the American Civil War. He is the brother of noted Confederate statesman Howell Cobb
Howell Cobb was an American political figure. A southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He also served as the 40th Governor of Georgia and as a Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan. Cobb is, however, probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederacy, having served as the President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States.