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Civil War Soldiers - Ransom
RANSOM, MATT. W., North Carolina.
Lieutenant colonel, First North Carolina Infantry.
Colonel, Thirty-fifth North Carolina Infantry, __, 1862.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., June 13, 1863.
Major general, __, 1865.
Commands.
Brigade composed of the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-fifth,
Forty-ninth and Fifty-sixth North Carolina Regiments Infantry,
Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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RANSOM, JR., ROBERT, North Carolina.
Captain, Corps of Cavalry, C. S. A., March 16, 1861.
Colonel Ninth North Carolina Volunteers (First North Carolina
Cavalry).
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., March __, 1862.
Major general, P. A. C. S., May 26, 1863.
Died at Newbern, N. C., January 14, 1892.
Commands.
Commanding brigade near Kingston, North Carolina, March 20, 1862.
Commanding Department of South, West Virginia, November 4, 1863.
Commanding Department of Richmond, April 25, 1864. Division, at battle
of Fredericksburg, composed of the brigades of Ransom and Cook.
Commanding Department of Richmond, April 25, to June 13, 1864.
Commanding Sub-district No. 2, Department of South Carolina, Georgia,
and Florida.
Ransom, Robert, born in North Carolina, appointed from North
Carolina cadet United States Military Academy, September 1, 1846;
graduated eighteenth in a class of forty-four.
Brevet second lieutenant, First Dragoons, July 1, 1850.
Second lieutenant, October 9, 1851.
First lieutenant, First Cavalry, March 3, 1855.
Regimental adjutant, May 25, 1855, to February 17, 1857.
Captain, January 31, 1861.
Resigned May 24, 1861.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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| Ransom, Thomas E. G.,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in Norwich, Vt., Nov. 29, 1834.
He was educated at Newbury seminary and Norwich university, completing
the course in civil engineering at Norwich in 1851, and prior to the
Civil war he practiced his profession and engaged in the real estate
business in Illinois. Early in 1861 he recruited a company for the
11th Ill. regiment, of which he was commissioned captain on April 24,
and he became major of the regiment in June and lieutenant-colonel on
July 30. He was wounded while leading a charge at Charleston, Mo., on
Aug. 20, and distinguished himself in the assault on Fort Henry and
the attack on Fort Donelson, where he was again wounded. He became
colonel of his regiment, Feb. 15, 1862, and at Shiloh was in the
thickest of the fight, and, although wounded in the head early in the
day, persisted in remaining with his command. He became chief of staff
to Gen. McClernand and inspector-general of the Army of the Tennessee
in June, and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in Jan.,
1863, his commission dating from Nov. 29, 1862. He rendered
conspicuous service in command of his brigade at Vicksburg, and in the
Red River campaign he commanded a division and received a wound in the
knee at Sabine cross-roads, from which he never recovered. He
commanded a division and subsequently the 16th army corps in the
operations about Atlanta, and on Sept. 1, 1864, was brevetted
major-general of volunteers. He subsequently commanded a division and
then the 17th corps in the pursuit of Hood, until forced to relinquish
his command at Gaylesville on account of illness. Gen. Ransom was
pronounced by both Grant and Sherman to be among the ablest generals
on their commands. He died near Rome, Ga., of illness brought on by
overwork and exposure, Oct. 29, 1864. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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