Asst. Surgeon Wm. Henry Harrison Cobb, 2nd North Carolina and Assistant Surgeon, 20th Georgia, born 1841, died 1909.

1880 United States Federal Census
Name: W. H. H. Cobb
Age: 39
Birth Year: abt 1841
Birthplace: North Carolina
Home in 1880: Goldsboro, Wayne, North Carolina
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: E. W. Cobb
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Occupation: M.D.
Household Members - Name/Age:
W. H. H. Cobb 39
E. W. Cobb 36
William Cobb 12
Marina Cobb 10
Leia Cobb 4
Mary W. Cobb 7
Lucy Arnold 50

Information compiled by Raymond W. Watkins, Falls Church, Va. in 1993 from cemetery records and from Record Group 109, the compiled Confederate military service records found in the National Archives, Washington, DC

(special thanks to bioengineer [Dr. F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.] #47026824 for the following detailed biography)
Cobb, William Henry Harrison
04/03/1841 - Born, Mt. Auburn, Wayne Co., NC (father: William Donnell Cobb; mother: Ann Spicer Collier)
1850 - Lived with parents and sibs, Neuse, Wayne Co., NC
1860 - Student, Indian Springs District, Wayne Co., NC
1861 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from: NC; thesis: "Lobelia Inflata")
07/06/1861 - Enrolled as Pvt., Co. H, 2nd NC Infantry
07/06/1861 - Appointed Sgt. Major, Co. H, 2nd NC Infantry
09/00/1861 - Sgt. Maj., Co., H, 2nd NC Infantry
10/14/1861 - Appointed, 2nd Lt., Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry
12/00/1861 - 2nd Lt., Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry
04/00/1862 - 2nd Lt., Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry
05/00/1862 - 3rd Lt., [rank may have been erroneously recorded] Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry, Camp Wyatt, south of Wilmington, NC
08/01/1862 - 2rd Lt., Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry
10/02/1862 - Detailed [S.O. 207/7 Dept. & Army of No. Va. - Gen Lee]
10/07/1862 - 2rd Lt., Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry
12/00/1862 - 2nd Lt., Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry
01/31/1863 - 2nd Lt., Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry
~02/02/1863 - Passed, Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Asst. Surgeon
02/21/1863 - Tendered his resignation as 2nd Lt., Co., D, 2nd NC Infantry
02/21/1863 - Ordered to report to Surgeon Hunter McGuire, Medical Director, 2nd Army Corps, Army of Northern Virginia for assignment to duty as Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry
03/02/1863 - In a hospital inspection report, Dr. Cobb is listed as Acting Hospital Steward under Surgeon S. S. Satchwell, Gen. Hospital, Wilson, NC. [This may have been true before his assignment as Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry, but it is unlikely on March 2,1863.]
03/06/1863 - Resigned as 2nd Lt., Co. D, 2nd NC Infantry because of promotion to Asst. Surgeon
06/11/1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 02/02/1863
06/11/1863 - Ordered to report to Gen. R. E. Lee
08/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry
12/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
02/29/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry
04/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry
08/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry
09/12/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry
10/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd NC Infantry
04/09/1865 - Paroled as Asst. Surgeon, 20th GA Infantry, Appomattox, VA
12/27/1866 - Married Henrietta "Etta" Wright [she died in 1924]
1870 - Practiced medicine, Bogden Township, Wayne Co., NC
1874,1880,1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, Goldsboro, Wayne Co., NC
- Local Surgeon, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
- Surgeon, I.O.O.F. Orphans Home
- Member, Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association
- Member, American Medical Association
- ex-President and Honorary Fellow, Tri-State Medical Association
[NC, SC, & VA]
- ex-President, Medical Society of the State of North Carolina
- Medical Examiner for Pennsylvania Mutual, North West Mutual, Aetna, Fidelity Mutual, Provident Savings Co., Union Central Life Insurance Co.
- State Medical Examiner, Royal Arcanum
1900,1903 - Practiced medicine, Goldsboro, Wayne Co., NC
1906 - Practiced medicine, Goldsboro, Wayne Co., NC (office: 116 W. Walnut St.; hours: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. & 4. p.m. - 6 p.m.)
07/21/1909 - Died, Goldsboro, Wayne Co., NC (buried: Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro, NC)

This biographical sketch is from: Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity. 05/02/2014. Unpublished database.