| Summary: | (Photograph taken in civilian clothes.) Graduated from West Point, 1852. Resigned his U.S. Army commission and was appointed as a captain in the Confederate Army in April 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in April 1863. Major campaigns and battles include Fort Donelson (captured and exchanged), Thompson's Station, the Vicksburg and Meridian campaigns, and later campaigns in eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. After the war, Cosby settled in California as a farmer. He committed suicide in June 1909 and is buried in Sacramento, California. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 2. National Historical Society, 1991.
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