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'''Robert Ransom, Jr.''' ([[1828]] – [[1892]]) was a [[Major General (United States)|major general]] in the [[Confederate States Army]] during the [[American Civil War]]. His brother [[Matt W. Ransom]] was also a Confederate general officer and [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]. |
'''Robert Ransom, Jr.''' ([[1828]] – [[1892]]) was a [[Major General (United States)|major general]] in the [[Confederate States Army]] during the [[American Civil War]]. His brother [[Matt W. Ransom]] was also a Confederate general officer and [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]. |
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Robert Ransom, Jr. was born in [[Warren County, North Carolina]] to Robert Ransom, Sr. and Priscilla Whitaker Ransom. He graduated from the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York|West Point]] in 1850. Ransom was assigned to the 1st dragoons on July 1, 1850. He attended the cavalry school at [[Carlisle Barracks]] in [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]] in 1850-51/ On October 9, 1851 he was promoted to [[Second Lieutenant]]. Ransom then performed frontier service in New Mexico from 1851-54. Ransom married Minnie Huntt in 1854. He was assistant instructor of cavalry tactics at West Point from 1854-55. In 1855 he was promoted to [[First Lieutenant]] and transferred to the 1st U.S. Cavalry. Ransom served as adjutant of the regiment at [[Fort Leavenworth, Kansas]] from 1855-1857, where he took part in the Sioux expedition and in policing the Kansas disturbances. The next few years saw him in the recruiting service and frontier duty in Arkansas, Kansas and Colorado. He was also promoted to [[Captain]]. He resigned his commission on [[January 31]], [[1861]], with the discussion of [[secession]] and the sectional crisis that led to the Civil War. |
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==Postbellum career== |
==Postbellum career== |
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| Allegiance | United States of America Confederate States of America |
| Service/ | Cavalry |
| Years of service | 1861 – 1865 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Robert Ransom, Jr. (1828 – 1892) was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His brother Matt W. Ransom was also a Confederate general officer and U.S. Senator.
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Postbellum career
Following the war, he was an express agent and city marshal at Wilmington, North Carolina, and then was a farmer until 1878. He then was a civil engineer in charge of Federal river and harbor works at New Bern, North Carolina. In 1881, his first wife died. The couple had nine children. In 1884, he married Katherine DeWitt Lumpkin and they had three children. Ransom died in New Bern in 1892.