Service record conforms enlistment at Columbus GA on Jan. 1, 1864, age 18. Jacob W. Cobb ended the war in a Northern prison. His service record includes an intriguing entry about receiving special medical treatment, time emdicine administered date cured, type of drug administered &c. The service file included a 1953 War Department reply to a lady in Durant OK who inquired about this man.

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