Ransom, Thomas E.G. to James B. McPherson
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09269 Author/Creator: Ransom, Thomas E.G. Place Written: s.l. Type: Letter signed Date: 28 August 1863 Pagination: 3 p. Order a Copy
To Gen. James B. McPherson, reporting on disloyalty of W.W. Shaw, who plans to ship cotton, and attacks Col. B. G. Farrar of the 30th Missouri: "...his men and officers can not be trusted in the country alone. They pillage and plunder and destroy beyond any men I have ever commanded and will not follow or obey my orders in this respect.... the officers...seem to have a very poor appreciation of the rights of citizens- non combatants-and very little respect for private property." Ransom died in October 1864 from wounds suffered at the Battle of Sabine Station the previous April.
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