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(1837 - 1919)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 21 year old druggist at Octavia in Early County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was wounded again, and captured, at Monocacy Junction near Frederick, MD on 10 July 1864. He was in the West's Buildings Hospital in Baltimore to 19 November, then transferred to Fort McHenry. He was sent to Point Lookout, MD on 2 January 1865 and was exchanged there on 14 March 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a grocer at Elkton in Todd County, KY, but by 1880 he was county surveyor in Cleburne, Johnson County, TX. By 1895 he was with the First National Bank in Cleburne.
References & notes
His service from Henderson,1 as John R. Ransome, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as John Thomas Robert Ransone, and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah Elizabeth Perry (1847-1920) and they had 4 children between 1867 - 1887.
Birth
09/29/1837 in FL
Death
06/03/1919; Cleburne, TX; burial in Cleburne Memorial Cemetery, Cleburne, TX
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7287]
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 28294]