This collection consists of documents relating to James Gettys McGready Ramsey, historian and physician of Knoxville, Tennessee, and his family. Included are correspondence, legal and financial papers, wills, newspaper and magazine clippings, scrapbooks, family Bibles, silhouettes, genealogical information, and other family and personal papers concerning Knoxville and Tennessee history. Also included are papers related to the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad Company, the Confederate Treasury, of which Ramsey was an official, the Civil War, Tennessee Historical Society, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, and Anderson's East Tennessee Mining Company (49ers). Correspondents include Lyman Draper, Andrew Jackson, William G. McAdoo, and Mrs. James K. Polk.

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