Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios Major-General Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom

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   RANSOM, MAJOR-GENERAL THOMAS EDWARD GREENFIELD, conspicuous for
   bravery during the Civil War at Charleston (Missouri), Fort Henry,
   Fort Donelson, and Shiloh, was born at Norwich, Vermont, in 1834. He
   received a military training at Norwich University, of which his
   father, Colonel Tureman B. Ransom, was president. Four years after his
   father's death (killed in action at Chapultepec, 1847), he became a
   civil engineer in Illinois, then a real estate agent.
   When the Civil War broke out Mr. Ransom raised a volunteer company for
   the Union army, was elected major of the Eleventh Illinois Volunteers
   for three month's service and then, on its reorganization, chosen to
   be its lieutenant-colonel. He led his regiment in the attack on Fort
   Donelson, where he was severely wounded. He was promoted to be
   colonel, led his regiment at Shiloh, and was wounded in the head
   during that action. His next appointments were as chief of staff to
   General McClernand, and inspector-general of the Army of the
   Tennessee. He was afterward on General Grant's staff near Vicksburg;
   was appointed brigadier-general, participated in the Red River
   campaign, commanding General McClernand's corps; was dangerously
   wounded at Sabine Cross Roads in April, 1864; had charge of a division
   in the Atlanta campaign and, although seriously ill, accompanied the
   Seventeenth Corps as commander, in pursuit of Hood. He died at Rome,
   Georgia, October 29, 1864, from the exposure and hard work which he
   had undergone.