General Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom (1834-1864)

General Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom (1834-1864) is a Georgia historical marker in Floyd County, dedicated 2001.

At 3543 Alabama Highway in Rome.

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Thomas E.G. Ransom enlisted as captain of Company E, 11th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in 1861. Wounded four times, he won honors at Ft. Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Red River. Rising steadily through the ranks, Ransom led the 17th Corps, Army of The Tennessee in the Battle of Jonesboro severing the last railroad into Atlanta. His infantry then pursued Confederate General John B. Hood northward. Stricken with typhoid fever, Ransom died here at the home of John Berryhill on October 29, 1864. He was brevetted Major General posthumously and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.

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1855 · A new map of Alabama (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Rome, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of General Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom (1834-1864), with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1866, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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General Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom (1834-1864)

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