Goodbye Mother: In the sketch at left, Ransom gives his mother, Margaretta, a hug goodbye before falling in with the 11th. She was hardened to having the men in her life leave for war, and told her 20-year-old son, “Remember your Mother, and face the foe bravely, my boy.” He did, on both accounts, and was wounded at Fort Donelson and Vicksburg.