Matt Whitaker Ransom

North Carolina · born or raised1826–1904

Confederate Army general, lawyer, politician (1826-1904)

Born in Warren County
Died in Garysburg
Studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Held office: North Carolina Attorney General

politician, lawyer, diplomat

Quotations with a citation

Look at the mighty Mississippi the Father of Waters—it rises in the nameless snows of North America—runs through twenty-three degrees of latitude, all our own soil, and washes the sides of ten young, flourishing, and powerful States; its tributaries drain the rains that fall in sight of the Atlantic and meet the streams that flow into the Pacific upon the summit of the Rocky Mountains—its broad tides bear on their buoyant bosom the clothing of half of the world, and the fertile valleys, which spread out from its ample banks are capable of producing food for the population of the whole earth for a thousand years to come.