Biography of George Blake Cosby



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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GEORGE BLAKE COSBY was born at Louisville, Ky., January 19, 1830. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 

1852, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Mounted Rifle regiment. He was transferred to the Second cavalry at 

its organization, March 3, 1855, was promoted to first lieutenant May 1, 1856, and to captain May 9, 1860. He resigned from 

the service to enter the Confederate military establishment in 1861. His first position therein was that of captain and 

chief of staff to Gen. S. B. Buckner. After passing through the intermediate grades, he was commissioned a brigadier 

general January 20, 1863, and assigned to the command of a brigade under General Van Dorn. After the close of the war he 

settled in California, where he engaged in contracting. He served as adjutant general of that state during the 

administration of Governor Stoneman, who had been a comrade-at-arms in the "old army." He subsequently filled other public 

positions, both state and federal. He died at Oakland, Cal., in July, 1909.



(Included with the article, "Indian Fight in Ford County in 1859," page 317)