Alexander Boyd Andrews, Jr. (1873-1946) Collection, PC.125

[Identification of item], PC.125, Alexander Boyd Andrews Jr. Colelction, Private Collections, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Papers of Andrews, Raleigh lawyer and son of railroad executive Col. A. B. Andrews (1841-1915). Included in his correspondence are letters from John Motley Morehead, grandson of Governor Morehead, describing Rockingham Co. hanging of Negro woman Tildy Carter in 1881; from H. A. Page, Sr., on the Walter Hines Page home in Cary; and from S. A. Ashe and Bierne Lay on the friendship between Gen. R. E. Lee and Bishop Thomas Atkinson. Other letters concern routing of a highway through Raleigh (1930); a parachute jump (1934); Fort Bragg, Calif.; Col. Charles C. Tew of the Citadel and Hillsborough Academy; and Episcopal missionaries in Liberia. Also a typed report on Masonic educational loan funds (1924); printed material about Roanoke Island, including review (1931) of film on the "Lost Colony" made by North Carolina for school instruction; and printed eulogy for educator John J. Blair (1938).

Civil War material includes cavalry commissions and parole of Capt. A. B. Andrews; certification of vote by Orange Co. soldier (1864); letter from a Confederate soldier (Mar., 1865); photograph of site of skirmish (Sept., 1863) at Jack's Shop, Va.; photograph of Henry Lawson Wyatt, first Confederate killed in battle; New Testament published by Confederate States Bible Society, 1862; and Confederate Soldier's Prayer Book by the Rev. Joseph W. Murphy (n.d.). Also in collection are appoint- ment and invitations for A. B. Andrews, Sr., to the World's Columbian Exposition (1893); and a pamphlet, WASHINGTON: HIS PERSON AS REPRESENTED BY THE ARTISTS. THE HOUDON STATUE, ITS HISTORY AND VALUE, by Sherwin McRae (published by order of the Senate of Virginia, 1873).

Andrews, Alexander Boyd, Jr.

Morehead, John Motley

Carter, Tildy

Page, H. A., Sr.

Page, Walter Hines

Ashe, S. A.

Lay, Bierne

Lee, Robert Edward

Blair, John J.

Andrews, A. B.

Wyatt, Henry Lawson

Murphy, Joseph W.

Andrews, A. B., Sr.

McRae, Sherwin

Atkinson, Thomas

Episcopal Church

Confederate States of America

Confederate States Bible Society

World's Columbian Exposition (1893)

Citadel Academy (Charleston, S.C.)

Hillsborough Academy

Generals

Bishops

Governors

Lawyers

Ship captains

African Americans

Women

Hanging

Executions and Executioners

Dwellings

Roads

Parachuting

Missionaries

Episcopalians

Freemasons

Education

Loans

Student loans

Motion pictures

LOST COLONY

Media Programs (Education)

Eulogies

Educators

Paroles

Cavalry

Death

Soldiers

NEW TESTAMENT

CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S PRAYER BOOK

WASHINGTON: HIS PERSON AS REPRESENTED BY THE ARTISTS. THE HOUDON STATUE, ITS HISTORY AND VALUE

Voting

Combat

Battlefields

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns

Friendship

Rockingham County (N.C.)

Raleigh (N.C.)

Cary

Roanoke Island

Fort Bragg (Calif.)

Orange County (N.C.)

Jack's Shop (Va.)