hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 40 8 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 37 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 31 7 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 31 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 26 2 Browse Search
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies. 22 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 16 6 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 16 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 15 7 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 13 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Ransom or search for Ransom in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Centreville. (search)
st February. In his manners he is courteous, affable, and gentlemanly. An inferior may approach him with ease, as he displays none of that hauteur which some officers assume, He dispatches business promptly, and at the same time converses with his visitors in a social and friendly style that at once secures confidence and commands respect. While sitting in the business room of Gen. S., his Sergeant announced a visitor; he was admitted — a youth of perhaps 19 years, the Serg't Major of Colonel Ransom's North Carolina Cavalry; intelligence beamed from his bright flashing eyes, and after his report was made, General S. and he conversed with as much familiarity and freedom as if they were equals in rank, and then followed an invitation for both of us to dine with him. After dinner, another visitor came into the General's office while he was asleep; he took his seat by the sleeper, spoke to him, and he opened his eyes, attended to the business desired, and then in a twinkling was again i