Thomas E. G. Ransom

"Ordinarily, he is of a quiet, modest disposition; but when in battle he becomes tiger like, fearing nothing and becoming terrible in action."

"[A soldier with] a record never surpassed, and hardly equaled in the history of this or any other war."

"Men who thought a company was quite enough for them to command properly at the beginning (of the Siege of Vicksburg), would have made good regimental or brigade commanders; most of the brigade commanders were equal to the command of a division, and one, Ransom, would have been equal to the command of a corps at least."

"Wounds are nothing new to this gallant officer, who bears ugly scars about his person, the tokens of Rebel attentions."