Inventory of the Robert Ransom Papers, 1887-1974

Collection Number 622-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Ransom, R. (Robert), 1828-1892.
Title
Robert Ransom Papers, 1887-1974.
Call Number
622-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
2 items.
Abstract
Robert Ransom was a major general in the Confederate States of America. The collection contains a speech, 1887, of Robert Ransom to the Ladies Memorial Association of New Bern, N.C., about the Civil War; and It Does Appear That I Am For All My Life To Be At Hard Employment... The Annotated Autobiography of Robert Ransom, Major General, C.S.A., Covering His Early Life and Service in the United States Army Before the Civil War, transcribed, with notes and an introduction, by David Sweet as a Dartmouth College honors project, 1974.


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Administrative Information

Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Robert Ransom Papers, #622-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Autobiographies--North Carolina.
Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
Ladies Memorial Association (New Bern, N.C.)
Ransom, R. (Robert), 1828-1892.
Sweet, David.
United States. Army--Military life--History.
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Biographical Note

Robert Ransom (1828-1892) was a major general in the Confederate States of America.

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Collection Overview

The collection contains a speech, 1887, of Robert Ransom to the Ladies Memorial Association of New Bern, N.C., about the Civil War; and "'It Does Appear That I Am For All My Life To Be At Hard Employment...' The Annotated Autobiography of Robert Ransom, Major General, C.S.A., Covering His Early Life and Service in the United States Army Before the Civil War," transcribed, with notes and an introduction, by David Sweet as a Dartmouth College honors project, 1974.