2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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A Confederate Officer’s 1pp.,letter written by James N. Ramsey, to General H.R. Jackson, datelined Franklin [now West Virginia], July 17, 1861. Ramsey was commissioned into Field & Staff Georgia 1st Volunteers Infantry on 4/3/1861. He was the Colonel commanding the 1st Georgia Volunteer Infantry regiment not long after joining General Robert S. Garnett’s forces. After Garnett was killed in the closing phases of the Battle of Corrick’s Ford, Ramsey assumed command of the army, and led his hungry and exhausted troops to Montgomery, Virginia. In part, “I have reports from my scouts that they were fired upon by about twenty of the enemy’s cavalry at Petersburg, 12 o’clock today. ... I shall have to keep the artillery and cavalry with me. ... you not do well to met me with fresh cavalry and infantry this side your camp some five miles. I learn there is a path from which the enemy may attack us.
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