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Cobb,s Battery, 1st Kentucky Brigade, Battle of Eddyville 2007 Event, First Orphan Brigade
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On April 29, 1865 the last documented skirmish of the American Civil War in Kentucky occurred on the banks of the Cumberland River in Eddyville. This engagement came twenty days after Lees surrender at Appomattox. The Battle of Eddyville occurred on the same day, in eastern Lyon County, near Saratoga Springs.
Cobbs Battery, a highly decorated Confederate artillery unit, was formed as the Kentucky 1st Artillery in the spring of 1861 by Captain H. B. Lyon in Lyon County at Kuttawa. Lyon died on April 25, 1907 almost 100 years before the 2007 reenactment. A graveside memorial is planned. The unit was later named for Captain Robert Cobb. The Battery suffered the highest number of casualties at Shiloh and later merged into the famous Orphan Brigade.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~orphanhm/cobbsbty.htm
On April 29, 1865 the last documented skirmish of the American Civil War in Kentucky occurred on the banks of the Cumberland River in Eddyville. This engagement came twenty days after Lees surrender at Appomattox. The Battle of Eddyville occurred on the same day, in eastern Lyon County, near Saratoga Springs.
Cobbs Battery, a highly decorated Confederate artillery unit, was formed as the Kentucky 1st Artillery in the spring of 1861 by Captain H. B. Lyon in Lyon County at Kuttawa. Lyon died on April 25, 1907 almost 100 years before the 2007 reenactment. A graveside memorial is planned. The unit was later named for Captain Robert Cobb. The Battery suffered the highest number of casualties at Shiloh and later merged into the famous Orphan Brigade.