Col. John Probert Cobb  was born on November 23, 1834 in Wayne County North Carolina.  John Cobb was a planter and plantation owner in Wayne County North Carolina before the Civil War.  After attending a military acadamy in Hillsbourough, North Carolina under Col. C.C. Tew John Cobb and his brother set out to enlist for service with the Confederacy.  On May 16, 1861 Cobb, along with his brothers, went to Goldsboro, North Carolina were John was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant of Company H of the 2nd North Carolina Infantry Regtiment of Cox's Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia.  This company fell under the command of no other than Col. C.C. Tew.  John and his brothers left with the Goldsboro Rifles and a group of Wayne County volunteers, by train, to Fort Macon right after the bombardment of Fort Sumter; the start of the War.  Plans were to take the Federal coastal fort. Eventually Col. C.C. Tew and the several companies under his took possesion of Fort Fisher and Tew was given command of the fort.  In 1862 John P. Cobb took command of the 2nd NC Regt. after the death his colonel, Col. C.C. Tew, at Antietam.  Col. Tew was shot in the head, on September 17, 1862, by a Union ball while talking to a member of an Alabama Regt.  Col. Tew's body was never recovered or identified and remains on the Battlefield of Antietam still today. Col. John P. Cobb carried forward the regiment now under his command.  On September 19, 1864 Col. Cobb was severely wounded while in command at the battle of Winchester, Virginia.  His wounds resulted in the loss of his left leg below the knee.  As a result of the loss of his left leg, Col. Cobb used the assistance of an artificial limb for the remainder of his life.  At the end of the war Col. John Cobb and his men were paroled at Richmond in March of 1865 after the surrender of Confederate Forces. After the war Col. Cobb returned to his home in Wayne County North Carolina where he eventually married.  According to North Carolina census records John Cobb was married to Sallie E.Whitfield and had the following children; William D., Lucy W., Ann S., Mary S., Winnifred and Grace P.  (Click here to view photo of Sallie E. Whitfield Cobb) According to The History of Florida:  Past & Present, "With the close of the war he resumed the management of his plantation, and for a number of years was probate judge of Wayne County, until he resigned this office in 1883.  He came to Brooksville, Florida, and subsequently served two terms as tax assessor of Hernando County and one term as postmaster of Brooksville, being appointed postmaster by President Cleveland.   He was an active member of the Episcopal Church in Brooksville." Oddly enough Col. John Cobb's relocation to Florida took place about the same time of a desaterous fire, which completely destoryed his insured Wayne County home.  It was shortly after this fire John Cobb sold his Wayne County property to the Jones family, and then the Cobb's came to Hernando County Florida, where they settled for a time.  According to Col. Cobb's own writing, he moved to Florida on November 1, 1883.  Land records show that Col. Cobb settled on 40 acres of property situated in the northern section of Hernando County.  After the county split in 1887 the colonel's property was situated in Citrus County.  Col. Cobb received full title to his 40 acre homestead on August 5, 1890 and this property is further described as being situated in Section 22, Township 20, Range 20 in Citrus County. By 1900 Col. Cobb and his wife, Sallie, had moved to Brooksville where they lived and took residence with daughter Lucy W. Cobb Burwell and her husband, John C. Burwell.  By 1907 Col. Cobb and his wife had moved to Tallahassee in Leon County, where they purchased the former home of Capt. R.A. Shine situated on the northwest corner of Calhoun and Georgia Streets.  Col. Cobb retained his property interest in Citrus, Hernando and Hillsborough Counties.  According to his own writing, in 1907 he owned 47 acres of property in Citrus County, with half interests in 75 acres in Hernando and half interest in a young 9 acre orange grove in Hillsborough.  Col. John P. Cobb passed away in 1923. Research by Stacey Jones and Jeff Cannon- Copyright © 2009)