He originally enlisted on 7/16/1861 at Camp Boone, TN as a Surgeon. On 7/16/1861 he was commissioned into KY 1st Light Artillery. As of September 8, 1862, he was still with the 1st Ky.
His records are not among those with the 1st Kentucky, but found in M331, Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers and Nonregimental Enlisted Men. They consist of 66 cards.
These records may be obtained through the service noted above.
George Martin
The 1st Kentucky Artillery (also known as Cobb's Battery) was an artillery battery that was a portion of the Orphan Brigade in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought in several engagements throughout the Western Theater, including the battles of Shiloh, Baton Rouge, Siege of Jackson, Sulphur Trestle, Resaca, Murfreesboro, Jonesborough, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Johnsonville. Following the end of the Atlanta Campaign, Cobb's Battery was detached from the Orphan Brigade and reassigned to defend Mobile, Alabama.
The battery was organized at the very outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 at Mint Springs, Kuttawa, Kentucky. Former United States Army Officer, Hylan B. Lyon—who had resigned his commission when war became inevitable—was elected the first Captain of the battery. However, due to Kentucky's official policy of neutrality during the early days of the conflict, Captain Lyon found that he could not train and drill his battery properly in Mint Springs. Therefore, the battery moved to Clarksville, Tennessee and enlisted as a group to join the Confederate States Army. At Camp Boone, the battery was trained in Artillery, and from this point forward was known either as the 1st Kentucky Artillery or Cobb's Kentucky Battery.
Following Lyon's promotion to General, Robert L. Cobb was made Captain of the battery, and it was under his command that the unit moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, and was officially brought into John C. Breckinridge's 1st Kentucky "Orphan" Brigade.