R Ransom papers, 1887-1974 [manuscript].

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R Ransom papers, 1887-1974 [manuscript].

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Speech, 1887, of Robert Ransom to the Ladies Memorial Association of New Bern, N.C., about the Civil War; and "Ìt 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," transcribed, with notes and an introduction, by David Sweet as a Dartmouth College honors project, 1974.

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