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 .