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Size | 2 items |
Abstract | 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 "'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," transcribed, with notes and an introduction, by David Sweet as a Dartmouth College honors project, 1974. |
Creator | Ransom, R. (Robert), 1828-1892. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Robert Ransom (1828-1892) was a major general in the army of the Confederate States of America. Ransom was a native of Warren County, N.C., and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1850. He served in the United States army in the Department of Mexico, 1851-1854, at West Point, 1854-1855, in Kansas, 1855-1857, and intermittently in other locations, 1857-1859. He resigned to enter Confederate service. He achieved the rank of major general in May 1863 and retired in late 1864 due to illness. He later worked as a civil engineer and died in New Bern, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection contains a speech, 1887, of Robert Ransom to the Ladies Memorial Association of New Bern, N.C., about the Civil War; and a copy of "'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," transcribed, with notes and an introduction, by David Sweet as a Dartmouth College honors project, 1974, with an accompanying genealogical chart. The unfinished autobiography covers events in Ransom's life up to the spring of 1859.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
SpeechIncludes original finding aid. |
Folder 2 |
"It Does Appear That I Am For All My Life To Be At Hard Employment..."; genealogy chart |