RANSOM, Robert Jr.

Confederate

Born: February 12 1828, Warren Cty NC

Died: January 14 1892, New Bern NC

Pre-War Profession: West Point 1850, frontier duty, resigned 1861.

War Service: 1861 Capt., August 1861 Col. of 1st North Carolina Cavalry, March 1862 Brig. Gen., command Ransom's Bde/Longstreet's Divn in Seven Days, Sharpsburg campaign, Fredericksburg, May 1863 Maj. Gen. in command of Dist. of Southeast Virginia, commanded cavalry under Longstreet in Tennessee, division command under Beauregard in Richmond defenses, Second Drewry's Bluff, cavalry command in Shenandoah Valley under Breckenridge and Early, commanded 1st Military Dist. of South Carolina.

Post War: Express agent, city marshal, farmer, and civil engineer