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92-514: When the Cobb County courthouse burned in 1848, Mayor John Glover donated the land to the city on the condition that it would stay a park or return to its heirs. Since then, the new courthouse has moved to its existing location, across the street from the southeast corner of the park. During the Civil War , the park was used as a training ground for the militia. On the north end of the park,

184-478: A 1% tax to lower property taxes , but only for the public school budget, and not the additional 1% HOST homestead exemption for general funds. The county has also voted not to pay the extra 1% to join MARTA . At the beginning of 2006, Cobb became the last county in the state to raise the tax to 6%, which also doubled the tax on food to 2%. The SPLOST barely passed by a 114 vote margin, or less than one-quarter of

276-551: A 1965 referendum which led to its creation. 33°56′N 84°35′W  /  33.94°N 84.58°W  / 33.94; -84.58 Great Locomotive Chase 2nd , 21st , and 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment Western and Atlantic Railroad The Great Locomotive Chase (a portion of the Andrews' Raid or the Mitchel Raid ) was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during

368-427: A determined pursuer, even on foot, could conceivably have caught up with the train before it reached Chattanooga. At Etowah, the raiders passed the older and smaller locomotive Yonah which was on a siding that led to the nearby Cooper Iron Works. Andrews considered stopping to attack and destroy that locomotive so it could not be used by pursuers, but given the size of its work party (even though unarmed) relative to

460-418: A family was $ 78,920. Males had a median income of $ 55,200 versus $ 43,367 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 33,110. About 7.6% of families and 10.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.5% of those under age 18 and 7.2% of those age 65 or over. As of 2000, there were 697,553 people, 248,303 households, and 169,178 families residing in the county. The population density

552-608: A major arm of the lake. Proctor Creek forms the much older Lake Acworth , which in turn empties directly into Lake Allatoona under the Lake Acworth Drive ( Georgia 92 ) bridge. North Cobb is in the Coosa River basin. There are several high points in Cobb County. Despite the lack of a grid system of city blocks though the county, all street addresses have their numeric origin at the southwest corner of

644-519: A percent, in a September 2005 referendum . The revenue was to go to a new county courthouse , expanded jail, various transportation projects, and the purchasing of property for parks and green space. In 2008, the school tax was renewed for a third term, funding the Marietta and Cobb school systems . The Cobb County School District is Cobb County's largest employer, employing over 15,000 people. Private corporations include: Shopping centers in

736-554: A rail to halt the Texas . Destroying the railway behind the hijacked train was a slow process. The raiders were too few in number and were too poorly equipped with the proper railway track tools and demolition equipment, and the rain that day made it difficult to burn the bridges. As well, railway officials in Chattanooga had sufficient time to evacuate engines and rolling stock to the south, hauling critical railroad supplies away from

828-471: A seven-member board of education. In addition to the county sheriff, the constitutional chief law enforcement officer of the county, Cobb County has a separate police department under the authority of the Board of Commissioners. The sheriff oversees the jail , to which everyone arrested under state law is taken, regardless of the city or other area of the county where it happens, or which police department makes

920-480: A small 911 call center ( PSAP ) upstairs in Kennesaw city hall , dispatching the police departments in both cities, and forwarding fire calls to Cobb. Smyrna operates a separate PSAP while offering dispatch services to the city of Powder Springs. Austell operates its own separate 911 system. The county retails potable water to much of the county and wholesales it to various cities. The current County Manager

1012-547: A succession of locomotives , including The Texas , for 87 miles (140 km). Because the Union men had cut the telegraph wires, the Confederates could not send warnings ahead to forces along the railway. Confederates eventually captured the raiders and quickly executed some as spies , including Andrews; some others were able to flee. The surviving raiders were the first to be awarded the newly created Medal of Honor by

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1104-594: A train engineer in Atlanta was willing to defect to the Union with his train, if Andrews could supply a volunteer train crew to assist running the train, tearing up track, and burning bridges. The main target was the railway bridge at Bridgeport, Alabama , although future Andrews Raider William Pittenger believed Andrews also intended to target several other bridges in Georgia and Tennessee. The volunteers for this first raid all came from General Mitchel's division, which

1196-401: A train just north of Atlanta at Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw ). They chose Big Shanty because they thought Big Shanty did not have a telegraph office and the stop would also be used to refuel and take on water for the steep grade further north. The raid began on April 12, 1862, when the regular morning passenger train from Atlanta, with the locomotive General , stopped for breakfast at

1288-453: A well provided water to parched men and women with a trough for horses. In the early 1900s the Atlanta trolley system was extended to Marietta and the trolley would turn around by circling the park. There was a maintenance shed across the street from the northeast corner. 33°57′09″N 84°33′00″W  /  33.952602°N 84.549933°W  / 33.952602; -84.549933 This Cobb County, Georgia state location article

1380-638: Is Marietta ; its largest city is Mableton . Along with several adjoining counties, Cobb County was established on December 3, 1832, by the Georgia General Assembly from the large Cherokee County territory—land northwest of the Chattahoochee River which the state acquired from the Cherokee Nation and redistributed to settlers via lottery , following the passage of the federal Indian Removal Act . The county

1472-411: Is 013067, for receiving targeted weather warnings from NOAA Weather Radio . The county is primarily within the broadcast range of one weather radio station: KEC80, on 162.550 MHz, transmitted to all of metro Atlanta and broadcast from NWSFO Peachtree City . The secondary station is the much newer WWH23 on 162.425 from Buchanan , which also transmits warnings for Cobb but has reception mainly in

1564-504: Is Jackie R. McMorris. From 1964 until 2012 , the county was a Republican stronghold in presidential elections. The only time during this period that the county supported a Democrat was in 1976 when native son Jimmy Carter swept every county in the state. Before 1960 , it was a " Solid South " Democratic county, except when Warren G. Harding came close to carrying it in 1920 , and when Herbert Hoover won it by nine points due to anti-Catholic voting against Al Smith in 1928 . In

1656-405: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cobb County, Georgia Cobb County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia , and is a core county of the Atlanta metropolitan area in the north-central portion of the state. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 766,149. It is the state's third most populous county, after Fulton and Gwinnett counties. Its county seat

1748-517: Is elected county-wide. The other four commissioners are elected from single-member districts. The board hires a county manager who oversees the day-to-day operations of the county's executive departments . County residents also elect a sheriff, district attorney, probate court judge, clerk of the superior court, clerk of the state court, state court solicitor, chief magistrate judge (who then appoints other magistrate court judges), superior court judges, state court judges, tax commissioner, surveyor, and

1840-569: Is land and 4.0 square miles (10 km ) (1.4%) is water. The county is located in the upper Piedmont region of the state, with a few mountains located within the county, considered to be part of the southernmost extensions of the Appalachian Mountains . The county is divided between two major basins . Most runoff flows into the Middle Chattahoochee - Lake Harding and Upper Chattahoochee River sub-basins of

1932-546: The 2nd , 21st , and 33rd Ohio Infantry . Andrews instructed the men to arrive in Marietta, Georgia , by midnight of April 10, but heavy rain caused a one-day delay. They traveled in small parties in civilian attire to avoid arousing suspicion. All but two (Samuel Llewellyn and James Smith) reached the designated rendezvous point at the appointed time. Llewellyn and Smith joined a Confederate artillery unit, as they had been instructed to do in such circumstances. Andrews' proposal

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2024-518: The ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin) along the southeastern border, directly via Willeo Creek , Sope Creek (Sewell Creek), Rottenwood Creek (Powers Creek, Poorhouse Creek, Poplar Creek), Nickajack Creek and others. The large Sweetwater Creek is the other major stream, carrying the waters of Noses Creek (Ward Creek, Olley Creek, Mud Creek), Powder Springs Creek (Rakestraw Creek, Mill Creek) and others into

2116-725: The American Civil War , some Confederate troops were trained at a camp in Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), where the Andrews Raid occurred, starting the Great Locomotive Chase . There were battles of New Hope Church May 25, 1864, Pickett's Mill May 27, and Dallas May 28. These were followed by the prolonged series of battles through most of June 1864 until very early July: the Battle of Marietta and

2208-465: The American Civil War . Volunteers from the Union Army , led by civilian scout James J. Andrews , commandeered a train, The General , and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee , doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Railroad (W&A) line from Atlanta to Chattanooga as they went. They were pursued by Confederate forces at first on foot, and later on

2300-476: The Battle of Noonday Creek . The Battle of Allatoona Pass on October 5, 1864, occurred as Sherman was starting his march through Georgia . Union forces burnt most houses and confiscated or burnt crops. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864, was the site of the only major Confederate victory in General William T. Sherman 's invasion of Georgia. Despite the victory, Union forces outflanked

2392-539: The C-130 Hercules and the C-5 Galaxy . "In Cobb County and other sprawling Cold War suburbs from Orange County to Norfolk / Hampton Roads , the direct link between federal defense spending and local economic prosperity structured a bipartisan political culture of hawkish conservatism and material self-interest on issues of national security." When county home rule was enacted statewide by amendment to

2484-465: The Georgia state constitution in the early 1960s, Ernest W. Barrett became the first chairman of the new county commission . The county courthouse , built in 1888, was demolished, spurring a law that now prevents counties from doing so without a referendum . In the 1960s and 1970s, Cobb transformed from rural to suburban , as integration spurred white flight from the city of Atlanta, which by 1970

2576-626: The House of Representatives passed a bill which would retroactively award the Medal of Honor to two of the three remaining raiders, Charles Perry Shadrack and George Davenport Wilson. On July 3, 2024, President Joe Biden posthumously presented the medal to descendants of both Shadrack and Wilson. All the Medals of Honor presented to the Andrews Raiders used identical text. Citation: One of

2668-534: The Olympic Torch Relay . The county's inns were nevertheless filled at 100% of capacity for two months during the event. In the 1990s and 2000s, Cobb's demographics changed. As Atlanta's gentrification reversed decades of white flight, middle-class African-Americans and Russian, Bosnian, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Mexican, and Central American immigrants moved to older suburbs in south and southwest Cobb. In 2010, African-American Democrat David Scott

2760-653: The Rockefellers and the Soviet Union to impose "socialist-one-world-government" and co-founded the Western Goals Foundation . In 1983, McDonald died aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 , shot down by a Soviet fighter jet over restricted airspace. I-75 through the county is now named for him. In 1990, Republican Congressmen Newt Gingrich became Representative of a new district centered around Cobb County. In 1994, as Republicans took control of

2852-677: The Tennessee River . Buell departed, leaving a 7,000-man garrison in Nashville along with Maj. Gen. Ormsby Mitchel 's 10,000-man 3rd Division. Mitchel had earlier assisted in the capture of Nashville and accepted the surrender of the city. With the withdrawal of both Confederate and Union forces towards western Tennessee, central Tennessee became an economy of force operation. Facing minimal Confederate resistance, Mitchel moved his division southeast out of Nashville on March 18 towards Murfreesboro , arriving on March 20. James J. Andrews

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2944-490: The exurban exchanges (including Canton) were fully made a part of what was already the world's largest toll-free calling zone. It is a zone spanning 7,162 square miles (18,549 km ), with four active telephone area codes , and local calling extending into portions of two others. Cobb's FIPS county code is 13067. Because the National Weather Service has not subdivided the county, its WRSAME code

3036-543: The town square in Marietta. Originally in area code 404 , the county was moved into area code 770 in 1995, and overlaid by area code 678 in 1998. Before 1995, those with phones tied to the Woodstock telephone exchange (prefixes 924, 926, 928, later 516 and 591) could also call the Canton exchange (479, later 445, then 704) as a local call. This became moot, along with other dual-zone exchanges in metro Atlanta, when

3128-550: The 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell) penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., in an attempt to destroy the bridges and tracks between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Both The General and The Texas survived the war and have been preserved in museums. The General is located at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History , in Kennesaw, Georgia, close to where

3220-691: The Andrews Raiders is located at the Chattanooga National Cemetery . There is a scale model of the General on top of the monument, and a brief history of the Great Locomotive Chase. The General is now in the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History , Kennesaw, Georgia, while the Texas is on display at the Atlanta History Center . One marker indicates where the chase began, near

3312-528: The Big Shanty Museum (now known as Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History) in Kennesaw, while another shows where the chase ended at Milepost 116.3, north of Ringgold – not far from the recently restored depot at Milepost 114.5 . Historic sites along the 1862 chase route include the following: Kennesaw House, 21 Depot St. (c. 1845), a hotel on the L&;N railway in Marietta, Georgia ,

3404-619: The Chattahoochee. A ridge from Lost Mountain in the west, to Kennesaw Mountain in the north-central, to Sweat Mountain in the extreme northeast, divides the far north-northwest of the county into the Etowah River sub-basin of the ACT River Basin (Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin), which includes Lake Allatoona . Noonday Creek (Little Noonday Creek) flows northward into the lake, as does Allatoona Creek , which forms

3496-539: The Confederates. In 1915, Leo Frank , the Jewish supervisor of an Atlanta pencil factory who was convicted of murdering one of his workers, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, was kidnapped from his jail cell and brought to Frey's Gin, two miles (3.2 km) east of Marietta, where he was lynched. Cotton farming in the area peaked from the 1890s through the 1920s. Low prices during the Great Depression resulted in

3588-520: The Gulf of Mexico. The remaining six were held as prisoners of war and exchanged for Confederate prisoners on March 17, 1863. On March 20, the recently released raiders arrived in Washington DC, and the following day Pittenger wrote a letter to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton detailing their mission to Georgia. On March 24, they were interviewed by Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt , who

3680-511: The Lacy Hotel. They took the General and the train's three boxcars , which were behind the tender in front of the passenger cars. The passenger cars were left behind. Andrews had previously obtained from the work crew a crowbar for tearing up track. The train's conductor , William Allen Fuller , and two other men, chased the stolen train, first on foot, then by a handcar belonging to a work crew shortly north of Big Shanty. Locomotives of

3772-564: The Ohio army and making it the first Confederate state capital to fall to the Union. After taking Nashville, Buell showed little inclination for further offensive operations, especially towards the pro-Union region of East Tennessee . On March 11, Buell's army was merged into the new Department of the Mississippi under General Henry Halleck. In late March, Halleck ordered Buell southwest to reinforce Grant's army near Pittsburg Landing on

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3864-495: The U.S. Census Bureau ranked Cobb County as the most educated in the state of Georgia and 12th-most in the United States. It has ranked among the top 100 highest-income counties in the United States. In October 2017, Cobb was ranked as the "Least Obese County in Georgia." Cobb County is one of the fastest growing counties in Georgia according to the 2020 US Census. Cobb County was one of nine Georgia counties carved out of

3956-508: The U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in almost fifty years, Gingrich became Speaker of the House , thrusting Cobb County into the national spotlight. In 1993, county commissioners passed a resolution condemning homosexuality and cutting off funding for the arts after complaints about a community theater. After protests from gay rights organizations, organizers of the 1996 Summer Olympics pulled events out of Cobb County, including

4048-549: The US Congress for their actions. As a civilian, Andrews was not eligible. After the Union capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston withdrew his forces from central Tennessee to reorganize. As part of this withdrawal, Johnston evacuated Nashville on February 23, surrendering this important industrial center to Union Brig. Gen. Don Carlos Buell 's Department of

4140-527: The Union base at Nashville, which would seize and sever the Memphis & Charleston Railroad between Memphis and Chattanooga (at the time there were no other railway links between the Mississippi river and the east) and then capture the water and railway junction of Chattanooga , Tennessee, thereby severing the Western Confederacy's contact with both the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. At

4232-419: The Union threat, so as to prevent their either being captured by General Mitchel or trapped uselessly inside Chattanooga during a Union siege of the city. With the Texas still chasing the General tender-first, the two trains steamed through Dalton and Tunnel Hill . The raiders continued to sever the telegraph wires, but they were unable to burn bridges or damage Tunnel Hill. The wood they had hoped to burn

4324-602: The Union-held stronghold and supply depot of Nashville, Tennessee . James J. Andrews , still a civilian scout and part-time spy, proposed another daring raid to Mitchel that would destroy the Western and Atlantic Railroad as a useful reinforcement and supply link to Chattanooga from Atlanta and the rest of Georgia. He recruited the men known later as the Andrews Raiders. These were the civilian William Hunter Campbell and 22 volunteer Union soldiers from three Ohio regiments:

4416-407: The age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 32.6% were non-families, and 25.6% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.17. The median age was 35.4 years. The median income for a household in the county was $ 65,522 and the median income for

4508-402: The age of 18 living with them, 54.30% were married couples living together, 10.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.20% were non-families. 23.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.25. In the county, 26.10% of the population

4600-484: The arrest. Each city has a separate police department, answerable to its governing council. Marietta, Smyrna, and Austell have separate fire departments , with the Cobb County Fire Department being the authority having jurisdiction over Kennesaw, Acworth, Powder Springs, and unincorporated areas. Cobb 911 covers unincorporated areas and the city of Marietta. Kennesaw and Acworth jointly operate

4692-458: The ceremony the six raiders were taken to the White House to meet President Abraham Lincoln , which became a tradition for all Medal of Honor recipients. Later, all but three of the other soldiers who had participated in the raid also received the Medal of Honor, with posthumous awards to families for those who had been executed. As civilians, Andrews and Campbell were not eligible. In 2008,

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4784-437: The cessation of cotton farming throughout Cobb County. The price of cotton went from 16¢ per pound (35¢/kg) in 1920 to 9½¢ (21¢/kg) in 1930. This resulted in a cotton bust for the county, which had stopped growing the product but was milling it. This bust was followed by the Great Depression . To help combat the bust, the state started work on a road in 1922 that would later become U.S. 41 , later replaced by Cobb Parkway in

4876-453: The chase began. The Texas is at the Atlanta History Center . The first account of the chase was published a year after the event in 1863 by William Pittenger, one of the Andrews Raiders, under the title of Daring and Suffering . It would be republished in 1881 as Capturing a Locomotive and 1889 as The Great Locomotive Chase . The book was a major success and was widely praised. Two decades later, one newspaper would claim it “was in half

4968-591: The city of Adairsville has held The Great Locomotive Chase Festival , a three-day festival in October which commemorates the event. In 2000, composer Robert W. Smith wrote a concert piece named for and inspired by the incident. In 2019, the raid was featured on Comedy Central show Drunk History in the episode "Behind Enemy Lines", narrated by Jon Gabrus , with John Francis Daley portraying Andrews and Martin Starr as Fuller. The Ohio monument dedicated to

5060-635: The county include: The Consulate-General of Costa Rica in Atlanta is located in Suite 100 at 1870 The Exchange in an unincorporated section of Cobb County. Until 1971, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad , running on tracks now owned by CSX, operated passenger trains through Marietta depot . Cobb County is not part of the MARTA Rail network, because its voters rejected MARTA development in

5152-405: The county system. Under Georgia's home rule provision, county governments have free rein to legislate on all matters within the county, provided that such legislation does not conflict with state or federal laws or constitutions. Cobb County is governed by a five-member board of commissioners , which has both legislative and executive authority within the county. The chairman of the board

5244-419: The county was 62.21% white, 24.96% black or African American, 4.46% Asian, 0.34% American Indian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 5.28% from other races, and 2.71% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 12.26% of the population. Regarding specific ethnic origins, 10.4% cited German, 10.0% English, 9.3% Irish, and 8.6% American ancestry. Of the 260,056 households, 36.7% had children under

5336-608: The disputed territory of the Cherokee Nation in 1832. It was the 81st county in Georgia and named for Judge Thomas Willis Cobb , who served as a U.S. Senator, state representative, and superior court judge. It is believed that the county seat of Marietta was named for Judge Cobb's wife, Mary. The state started acquiring right-of-way for the Western & Atlantic Railroad in 1836. A train began running between Marietta and Marthasville (modern-day Atlanta) in 1845. During

5428-481: The exploit, Corporal William Pittenger said that the remaining raiders worried about also being executed. They attempted to escape and eight succeeded. Traveling for hundreds of miles in pairs, the eight made it back safely to Union lines, including two who were aided by slaves and Union sympathizers and two who floated down the Chattahoochee River until they were rescued by the Union blockade vessel USS Somerset in

5520-518: The first non-Georgian Democrat since John F. Kennedy in 1960. The county then supported Joe Biden in 2020 by 14 points–the best showing for a Democrat since Kennedy in 1960. This was crucial to Biden winning the state for the Democrats for the first time since 1992 . In 2018 , Stacey Abrams became the first Democrat to win Cobb County in a gubernatorial election since 1986 , when Joe Frank Harris swept every county statewide. In 2020, in

5612-406: The last train of that sectional movement had passed him. The raiders being delayed at Kingston for over an hour, this gave Fuller all the time he needed to close the distance. The raiders finally pulled out of Kingston only moments before Fuller's arrival. They still managed north of Kingston again to cut the telegraph wire and break a rail. Meanwhile, moving north on the handcar, Fuller had spotted

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5704-610: The late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1942, Bell Aircraft opened a Marietta plant to manufacture B-29 bombers and Marietta Army Airfield was founded. Both were closed after World War II but reopened during the Korean War when the Air Force acquired the airfield, renamed Dobbins AFB, and the plant by Lockheed . During the Korean and Vietnam Wars , Lockheed Marietta was the leading manufacturer of military transport planes, including

5796-471: The late 20th century, the county developed a reputation as a conservative stronghold. However, due to rapid racial and ethnic demographic changes since the 1990s, along with population growth coming from blue northern states, the county has increasingly supported the Democratic Party. In 2016 , when Hillary Clinton became the first Democrat to win Cobb County since Jimmy Carter in 1976 , and

5888-433: The list. The Board's attorney stated there was no probable cause and gave reasons. After a brief discussion, the board voted unanimously to deny the challenge. In addition to the 4% statewide sales tax , Cobb County levies an additional 2% for special projects, each 1% subject to separate renewal every few years by countywide referendum (including within its cities). This funds mainly transportation and parks. Cobb levies

5980-414: The locomotive Yonah at Etowah and commandeered it, chasing the raiders north all the way to Kingston . There, Fuller switched to the locomotive William R. Smith, which was on a sidetrack leading west to the town of Rome, Georgia , and continued north towards Adairsville . Two miles south of Adairsville, however, the pursuers were stopped by the broken track, forcing Fuller and his party to continue

6072-590: The old soldier households in the country.” Buster Keaton 's silent film comedy The General is loosely based on Pittenger's memoirs. In 1956, Walt Disney Productions released the dramatic film The Great Locomotive Chase , also based on Pittenger's memoirs, starring Fess Parker as Andrews and Jeffrey Hunter as Fuller and filmed on the Tallulah Falls Railway in North Carolina. Walt Disney , who personally supervised parts of

6164-596: The poverty line, including 9.1% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over. School districts include: Cobb County maintains the Cobb County Public Library System . The libraries provide resources such as books, videos, internet access, printing, and computer classes. The libraries in the CCPLS are: The Smyrna Public Library is a city-owned library in Smyrna and is not part of

6256-540: The production, also rented the 4-4-0 locomotives William Mason to play The General , the Inyo to play The Texas , and Lafayette to play The Yonah . The same year, Dell published a paperback original movie tie-in , The Great Locomotive Chase by MacLennan Roberts, "Based on the Walt Disney Production and on authentic Civil War documents", according to the cover blurb . Since at least 1979,

6348-604: The pursuit on foot. Beyond the damaged section, he took command of the southbound locomotive Texas south of Calhoun, where Andrews had passed it, running it backwards. The Texas train crew had been bluffed by Andrews at Calhoun into taking the station siding, thereby allowing the General to continue northward along the single-track main line. Fuller, when he met the Texas , took command of her, picked up eleven Confederate troops at Calhoun, and continued his pursuit, tender -first, northward. The raiders now never got far ahead of Fuller and never had enough time to stop and take up

6440-501: The situation and hold the line, the Confederates would then launch a counterattack from Chattanooga with the advantage of a local superiority of men and materiel . It was this process that the Andrews raid sought to disrupt. If he could somehow block railroad reinforcement of the city from Atlanta to the southeast, Mitchel could take Chattanooga. The Union Army would then have rail reinforcement and supply lines to its rear, leading west to

6532-447: The size of the raiding party, he judged that any firefight would be too long and too involved, and would alert nearby troops and civilians. As the raiders had stolen a regularly scheduled train on a railroad with only one track, they needed to keep to that train's timetable. If they reached a siding ahead of schedule, they had to wait there until scheduled southbound trains passed them before they could continue north. Andrews claimed to

6624-414: The special train movements southward at the highest priority. Thus delayed at the junction town of Kingston, as the first of the southbound freight evacuation trains approached, Andrews inquired of that train's conductor why his train was carrying a red marker flag on its rear car. Andrews was told that Confederate Railway officials in Chattanooga had been notified by Confederate Army officials that Mitchel

6716-535: The station masters he encountered that his train was a special northbound ammunition movement ordered by General Beauregard in support of his operations against the Union forces threatening Chattanooga. This story was sufficient for the isolated station masters Andrews encountered (as he had cut the telegraph wires to the south), but it had no impact upon the train dispatchers and station masters north of him, whose telegraph lines to Chattanooga were working. These dispatchers were following their orders to dispatch and control

6808-415: The telegraph lines, but successfully pretended to be overworked wiremen. The raiders then returned north to Union lines, arriving about a week after they had departed. Andrews spent several additional days conducting reconnaissance on the Western and Atlantic Railroad before also departing back north to federal lines. None of the original raiders would volunteer for the second raid. One added that "he felt all

6900-504: The time he was in the enemy’s country as though he had a rope around his neck." Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel , commanding Federal troops in middle Tennessee , sought a way to contract or shrink the extent of the northern and western borders of the Confederacy by pushing them permanently away from and out of contact with the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. This could be done by first a southward and then an eastward penetration from

6992-412: The time normally averaged 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), with short bursts of speed of about 20 miles per hour (32 km/h). In addition, the terrain north of Atlanta is very hilly, and the ruling grades are steep. Even today, average speeds are rarely greater than 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) between Chattanooga and Atlanta. Since Andrews intended to stop periodically to perform acts of sabotage,

7084-720: The time, the standard means of capturing a city was by encirclement to cut it off from supplies and reinforcements, then would follow artillery bombardment and direct assault by massed infantry. However, Chattanooga's natural water and mountain barriers to its east and south made this nearly impossible with the forces that Mitchel had available. When the Union Army threatened Chattanooga, the Confederate States Army would (from its naturally protected rear) first reinforce Chattanooga's garrison from Atlanta. When sufficient forces had been deployed to Chattanooga to stabilize

7176-524: The turmoil surrounding the election defeat of Donald Trump , the chairman of the Cobb County Republicans and another person challenged the election results in an attempt to remove 16,024 Cobb County voters from eligibility to vote in the runoff election for both Georgia senators, scheduled for January 5, 2021. The county Board of Elections held a hearing to decide whether there was probable cause to move forward with hearings for each name on

7268-670: The two who had missed the hijacking. Mitchell's attack on Chattanooga ultimately failed. Confederate forces charged all the raiders with "acts of unlawful belligerency"; the civilians were charged as unlawful combatants and spies. All the prisoners were tried in military courts, or courts-martial. Tried in Chattanooga, Andrews was found guilty. He was executed by hanging on June 7 in Atlanta. On June 18, seven others who had been transported to Knoxville and convicted as spies were returned to Atlanta and also hanged; their bodies were buried unceremoniously in an unmarked grave. They were later reburied in Chattanooga National Cemetery . Writing about

7360-505: The western part of the county. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 766,149 people, 286,952 households, and 191,533 families residing in the county. As of the 2010 United States Census , there were 688,078 people, 260,056 households, and 175,357 families residing in the county. The population density was 2,026.4 inhabitants per square mile (782.4/km ). There were 286,490 housing units at an average density of 843.7 per square mile (325.8/km ). The racial makeup of

7452-472: Was 1,998 inhabitants per square mile (771/km ). There were 261,659 housing units at an average density of 770 per square mile (300/km ). The racial makeup of the county in 2000 was 72.4% White , 18.8% Black , 0.3% Native American , 3.06% Asian , 0.0% Pacific Islander , 5.3% from other races , and 1.87% from two or more races. 7.73% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 248,303 households, out of which 35.80% had children under

7544-515: Was a Kentucky-born civilian serving as a secret agent and scout in Tennessee , for Major General Don Carlos Buell in the spring of 1862. Sometime before Buell departed Nashville in late March, Andrews presented him with a plan to take eight men to steal a train in Georgia , and drive it north. Buell would later confirm in August 1863 that he authorized this expedition. According to Andrews,

7636-505: Was a combined operation; General Mitchel and his forces would first move on Chattanooga; then, the Andrews’ Raid would promptly destroy the rail line between Chattanooga and Atlanta. These essentially simultaneous actions would bring about the capture of Chattanooga. Andrews' Raid was intended to deprive the Confederates of the integrated use of the railways to respond to a Union advance, using their interior lines of communication. The plan

7728-695: Was able to corroborate details of their mission with testimony from the raiders who had escaped in 1862. On March 25, they were invited to Stanton's office at the Department of War . After a brief conversation, Stanton announced that the raiders would receive the newly approved Medal of Honor . Private Jacob Parrott , who had been physically abused as a prisoner, was awarded the first. The others were Sergeant Elihu H. Mason , Corporals William Pittenger and William H. H. Reddick, and Privates William Bensinger , Wilson Wright Brown, and Robert Buffum . Stanton also offered them all commissions as First Lieutenant. After

7820-575: Was approaching Chattanooga from Stevenson, Alabama, intending to either capture or lay siege to the city, and as a result of this warning, the Confederate Military Railways had ordered the Special Freight movements. The red train marker flag on the southbound train meant that there was at least one additional train behind the one which Andrews had just encountered, and that Andrews had no "authority for movement" until

7912-463: Was elected to Georgia's 13th congressional district , which included many of those suburbs. Cobb became the first Georgia county to participate in the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 287(g) enabling local law officers to enforce immigration law. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 345 square miles (890 km ), of which 340 square miles (880 km )

8004-524: Was encamped at Murfreesboro, Tennessee . Moving south forty miles on foot to the Confederate railhead at Tullahoma , the raiders were then able to travel by train down to Marietta, Georgia . There, Andrews discovered the engineer had been pressed into service elsewhere. Andrews asked if any of the raiders knew how to operate a locomotive; when none did, he called the raid off. Two raiders were also confronted by Confederate soldiers while trying to cut

8096-484: Was majority-African-American. Real-estate booms drew rural white southerners and Rust Belt transplants, both groups mostly first-generation white-collar workers . Cobb County was the home of former segregationist and Georgia governor Lester Maddox (1966–71). In 1975, Cobb voters elected John Birch Society leader Larry McDonald to Congress, running in opposition to desegregation busing . A conservative Democrat , McDonald called for investigations into alleged plots by

8188-574: Was named for Thomas Willis Cobb , a U.S. representative and senator from Georgia. It is believed that Marietta was named for his wife, Mary. Cobb County is included in the Atlanta metropolitan area and is situated immediately to the northwest of Atlanta's city limits. Its Cumberland District , an edge city , has over 24 million square feet (2,200,000 m ) of office space. Major League Baseball 's Atlanta Braves have played home games at Truist Park in Cumberland since 2017. In 2003,

8280-452: Was soaked by rain. Just before the raiders cut the telegraph wire north of Dalton, Fuller managed to send off a message from there alerting the authorities in Chattanooga of the approaching stolen engine. Finally, at milepost 116.3, north of Ringgold, Georgia , just 18 miles from Chattanooga, with the locomotive out of fuel, Andrews's men abandoned the General and scattered. Andrews and all of his men were caught within two weeks, including

8372-702: Was to steal a train on its run north towards Chattanooga, stopping to damage or destroy track, bridges, telegraph wires, and track switches behind them, so as to prevent the Confederate Army from being able to move troops and supplies from Atlanta to Chattanooga. The raiders planned to cross through the Federal siege lines on the outskirts of Chattanooga and rejoin Mitchel's army. Because railway dining cars were not yet in common use, railroad timetables included water, rest, and meal stops. They planned to steal

8464-424: Was under the age of 18, 9.00% from 18 to 24, 36.50% from 25 to 44, 21.50% from 45 to 64, and 6.90% was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.90 males. As of 2007, the median income was $ 70,472. The per capita income for the county was $ 32,740. About 6.0% of families and 9.4% of the population were below

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