Robert Ransom Papers, . 1887-1974

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Robert Ransom Papers, . 1887-1974

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Robert Ransom was a major general in the Confederate States of America. The collection contains a speech, 1887, of Robert Ransom to the Ladies Memorial Association of New Bern, N.C., about the Civil War; and transcribed, with notes and an introduction, by David Sweet as a Dartmouth College honors project, 1974. It Does Appear That I Am For All My Life To Be At Hard Employment... The Annotated Autobiography of Robert Ransom, Major General, C.S.A., Covering His Early Life and Service in the United States Army Before the Civil War,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Ransom, R. (Robert), 1828-1892

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A West Point graduate, Robert Ransom served in the U.S. Army under then-Lt Colonel Edwin V. Sumner, 1st U.S. Cavalry, 1855-57. He resigned his army post at the onset of the Civil war to serve in the Confederate Army as Captain of Cavalry. By the end of the war, he reached the rank of Major General. He later worked as an express agent, city marshal at Wilmington, N.C., planter and civil engineer. From the description of Robert Ransom letter, 1879. (Louisiana State University). WorldCa...