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I.B. Ransom
(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 60th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted on 19 September 1861 in Dalton, GA and mustered as a Private in Company B, 60th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His oldest brother William James Ransom filed a claim for his final pay in March 1864.
References & notes
His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His picture from a photograph of unknown provenance hosted by Georgia Confederate Images on Facebook.
Birth
c. 1839; Hancock County, GA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 19692]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31305]