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courage of a youth, who was just going to take the
offensive, was superseded by the incapable and spiritless
Klingspor, who allowed the country to fall into the hands
of the enemy. It was in this war that the two brothers
Ramsay fell. Their untimely death afforded to the
Swedish poet Runeberg the subject for his poem entitled:
“Främlingens syn,”* 1 Le. the sight presented to a stranger,
or “what a stranger saw.” In it the poet relates how
one night, in travelling past a lordly estate, he saw a light
in a room of the hall, and an old, white-haired lady
accompanied by a servant stopping in silent prayer before two
pictures which hung close to each other upon the wall.
This was Lady Ramsay, who to the end of her life, in 1816,
every day used to “bid good night” to her two sons.
The elder one, Anders Vilhelm, had been a very promising
young officer. Born on the 28th of October, 1777, he
finished his studies at the military academy of Karlberg.
He then served in a Neapolitan regiment from 1798-1801,
where he took Major’s rank. After his return to Sweden
he was appointed, in 1805, Captain in the Tavastehus
regiment, and gained in the same year the highest prize of
the Academy for his treatise on “the most advantageous
posting of infantry.” In the Finnish war he was killed
by a bullet in the skirmish of Lemo, on the 20th of June.
His brother Karl Gustav fell about a month later, on
the 14th of July, at the skirmish of Lappo. He had been
Adjutant to Generals Adlercreutz and Von Döbeln. The
mother caused the bodies to be brought to Sweden,
where they were interred in Borgå, and had a medal
.struck in their memory.
Swedish poet Gejer also wrote a “Death-offering for the Brothers
Ramsay.” It has been set to music by the Swedish composer Berwald.
1 Runeberg has another poem in which he sings of the grave of the two
Ramsays. It is called “ Färd från Åbo ” (A Sail from Åbo).
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