Inventory of the J. G. M. Ramsey Papers, 1789-1944

Collection Number 2328


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Ramsey, J. G. M. (James Gettys McGready), 1797-1884.
Title
J. G. M. Ramsey Papers, 1789-1944.
Call Number
2328
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 100 items (0.5 linear feet).
Abstract
In part typed transcript and microfilm copies. Historian, railroad director, banker, and physician, of Knoxville, Tenn. Papers include Ramsey's autobiography and very scattered letters and papers by or concerning him and members of his family, including a copy of a brief Civil War diary, mainly 1864-1866, of his wife, Margaret B. (Crozier) Ramsey, in Tennessee and as a refugee in North Carolina; clippings; Alexander family writings; Civil War recollections, Our Women in the War, by Sue (Ramsey) Alexander; and genealogical notes on the Alexander and Ramsey families.


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Administrative Information

Alternate Form of Material
Microfilm and typed transcripts of some items available.
Acquisitions Information
Gift 1941
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the J. G. M. Ramsey Papers, #2328, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Alexander family.
Alexander, Sue Ramsey.
Autobiographies--Tennessee.
Diaries.
Knoxville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
North Carolina--Genealogy.
North Carolina--Social conditions.
Ramsey family.
Ramsey, J. G. M. (James Gettys McGready), 1797-1884.
Ramsey, Margaret B. Crozier.
Tennessee--Biography.
Tennessee--Genealogy.
Tennessee--Social conditions.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
Women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
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Biographical Note

Historian, railroad director, banker, and physician, of Knoxville, Tenn.

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Collection Overview

In part typed transcript and microfilm copies. Papers include Ramsey's autobiography and very scattered letters and papers by or concerning him and members of his family, including a copy of a brief Civil War diary, mainly 1864-1866, of his wife, Margaret B. (Crozier) Ramsey, in Tennessee and as a refugee in North Carolina; clippings; Alexander family writings; Civil War recollections, "Our Women in the War," by Sue (Ramsey) Alexander; and genealogical notes on the Alexander and Ramsey families.