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SALISBURY

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 80 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SALISBURY , a
city
  and the county-seat of Rowan county,
North
  Carolina, U.S.A., about 120 M. W. by S. of Raleigh. Pop. (1890) 4418; (1900) 6277 (2408 negroes); (1910) 7153. Salisbury is served by the Southern railway, which has repair shops here. It is the seat of Livingstone College (
African
  Methodist Episcopal, removed from Concord to Salisbury in 1882, chartered 1885). There is a
national
  cemetery here, in which 12,147 Federal soldiers are buried. The
city
  has various manufactures and is the
trade
  centre of the surrounding farming country. Salisbury was founded about 1753, was first incorporated as a town in 1755 and first chartered as a city in 1770. During the Civil War there was a Confederate military prison here. On the 12th of
April
  1865 the
main
 
body
  of General George Stoneman's cavalry encountered near Salisbury a force of about 3000 Confederates under General
William
  M. Gardner, and captured 1364 prisoners and 14 pieces of artillery.


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