Georgia   Biographies  Robert A. Toombs

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ROBERT A. TOOMBS

Robert Augustus Toombs, was the son of Robert Toombs and
Catherine Huling of Wilkes County, Georgia.  He was born
July 02, 1810.  He was sent to Union College in
Schenectady, New York, to attend college where he
graduated in 1828.  For a year he studied law at the
University of Virgina, returned to Wilkes County and set
up a law practice.

Toombs was a member of the Georgia State Legislature from
1837 to 1844.  He was then elected to the United States
Congress in 1845 to 1853.

In 1861 he was a degegate to the convention to from the
Confederate States of America.  He served the CSA as
Secretary of State until July 19, 1861, when he became a
Brigadier General of the Second Georgia, the Fifteenth
Georgia, the Seventeenth Georgia and the Twentiety
Georgia Regiments.  At the Battle of Sharpsburg,
Maryland, Toombs received a wound but continued to serve.
In 1863, he resigned and served as adjutant for the
Georgia State Militia.  He was one of the five men that
the United States Government sought to capture and punish
at the close of the War Between the States.  He left the
country and did not return until 1867, and took the "oath
of allegiance."

General Toombs died in Washington, Wilkes County,
Georgia, on December 15, 1885, and is buried in the Rest
Haven Cemetery.

Toombs County, Georgia, was formed and named for Toombs,
August 18, 1905 from land taken from Emanuel, Montgomery,
and Tattnall.

LYONS, Georgia is the county seat.




Note: Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, Washington City, Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp.
255-256. APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES "The author
conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named,
would furnish an instructive and pleasing appendage to
his topographical work... Acquainted with the intimate
friends of some of the 'venerable dead,' he has been
furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character... There are in the State ninety counties (book
printed in 1837, presently in 2001, there are 159
counties)..."


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