Editing Howell Cobb (section)

==Later life and death==

[[File:Postbellum-Cobb.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Cobb in his postbellum days]]

Following the end of the Civil War, Cobb returned home and resumed his law practice. Despite pressure from his former constituents and soldiers, he refused to make any public remarks on [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] policy until he received a presidential pardon, although he privately opposed the policy. Finally receiving the pardon in early 1868, he began to vigorously oppose the [[Reconstruction Acts]], making a series of speeches that summer that bitterly denounced the policies of [[Radical Republicans]] in the U.S. Congress.

That autumn, Cobb vacationed in New York City, and died of a heart attack there. His body was returned to [[Athens, Georgia]], for burial in [[Oconee Hill Cemetery]].<ref>"Howell Cobb", ''New Georgia Encyclopedia''</ref>