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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John A. Ramsay Papers, #3534, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loaned by John Erwin Ramsay of Salisbury, N.C., May 1961.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Beall family.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Supplies and stores.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Artillery Regiment, 10th.
• Davie County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Edgeworth Female Seminary (Greensboro, N.C.)
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Iredell County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Ramsay, John A. (John Andrew), 1836-1909.
• Ramsay, Julius D., d. 1864.
• Ramsay, Margaret Beall.
• Rowan County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Salisbury (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Salisbury (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.

John A. Ramsay of Salisbury, N.C., was captain of the Rowan Artillery, later Company D, 10th North Carolina Artillery Regiment, which served with the Army of Northern Virginia throughout the Civil War.

Julius D. Ramsay of Salisbury, N.C., was a cousin of John A. Ramsay. His wife was Margaret L. Beall of Salisbury. After the death of Julius D. Ramsay in 1864, Margaret married John A. Ramsay.

The collection is primarily military papers of Captain John A. Ramsay. Included are official correspondence, muster rolls, ordnance and quartermaster returns, orders, reports, and a variety of other military records, and Ramsay's postwar correspondence about the history of the unit. There is also personal correspondence of the Civil War period between John A. Ramsay at camps in various Virginia locations and Julius and Margaret Beall Ramsay. Letters between Julius and John show that Julius managed John's business affairs in Salisbury while the latter was serving in the army and assisted him in obtaining supplies for his regiment. Letters from John to Margaret after 1864 were apparently written in courtship. Also included is antebellum correspondence of Margaret L. Beall, from family and friends, mostly in Rowan, Iredell, and Davie counties, N.C., including letters received while she was student at Edgeworth Female Seminary, Greensboro, N.C. The letters discuss social and family news.