Dunbar Richard Ransom

Home State: Vermont
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: 5th United States Artillery, Battery C

Before the Antietam Campaign:
Service Summary:
Cadet, USMA (West Point) 1 July 1847 to 30 Sept 1850;
Appointed 2nd Lt, 3rd US Artillery, 7 June 1855;
Promoted to 1st Lt 31 Dec 1856 and Captain 1 Nov 1861;
Dismissed 20 Oct 1872;
Reinstated Captain, U S A, 3 Jan 1895; (to date from 1 Aug 1884);
Retired 14 Jan 1895;

Cited (brevetted) for gallantry at Fredericksburg Va, Gettysburg, Pa, Kearneysville, Va;

In the Antietam Campaign:
Of his actions on 17 September, General Meade wrote in his after action report:

"I cannot close this report without calling your attention to the skill and good judgment, combined with coolness, with which Captain Ransom, his officers (Lieutenants Weir and Gansevoort) and men, served his battery. In a previous part of this report I have described the advance of the enemy through the corn-field, and the check the column received from Captain Ransom's fire. I consider this one of the most critical periods of the morning, and that to Captain Ransom's battery is due the credit of repulsing the enemy."

References, Sources, and other notes:
Source: Heitman, Francis Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, Washington, US Government Printing Office, 1903.

Birth State: NC
College: US Military Academy, West Point, NY
Death Date: 4/11/1897

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