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— The Battle of Fredericksburg —
The monument across the road marks the spot where General Thomas R. R. Cobb suffered a mortal wound. A brilliant Constitutional lawyer prior to the war, he left his practice to take up arms for the South. At Fredericksburg Cobb fought his first battle as a brigadier general in command of a Georgia brigade. He was determined to do well. When told before the battle that he must fall back if the troops on his left gave way, Cobb growled, "Well! If they wait for me to fall back, they will wait a long time."Cobb fell when a Union artillery shell crashed through the Stephens house, behind you, and exploded, sending shrapnel into his thigh. He would die a few hours later. Although Cobb was a Georgian, his mother had grown up in Fredericksburg. Her childhood home, "Federal Hill," stood on the outskirts of town within sight of Cobb's position (trees and postwar houses obscure the view today). Later accounts claimed that the shot that killed Cobb was fired from the vicinity of his mother's house.
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| HM Number | HM5DC |
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| Placed By | Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park - National Park Service - U.S. Dept. of the Interior |
| Marker Condition |  0 out of 10 (1 reports) |
| Date Added | Friday, October 3rd, 2014 at 11:49pm PDT -07:00 |
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| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 284147 N 4241467 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 38.29535000, -77.46828333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 17.721', W 77° 28.097' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 17' 43.26" N, 77° 28' 5.82" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 540 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 500-540 Willis St, Fredericksburg VA 22401, US |
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