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Gen. Thomas Ransom Historical Marker
- Gen. Thomas Ransom GHS Historical
Marker
- Located at the Berryhill House, 3543 Alabama Hwy.
(Ga. 20) in Rome, Ga.
(Text)
- General Thomas Edwin
Greenfield Ransom
- 1834-1864
Thomas E.G. Ransom enlisted as
captain of Company #, 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 breveted Major General posthumously and is buried
in Rose Hill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.
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- Erected by The
Georgia Historical Society,
- Norwich University,
and the Eighth Regiment Band
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