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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Garnett Andrews Papers, #1839, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Mr. Garnett Andrews of Rossville, Ga. 1951-1958

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010

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• Andrews family.
• Andrews, Eliza Frances, b. 1840.
• Andrews, Garnett, 1837-1903.
• Andrews, Rosalie Beirne.
• Autographs--United States--Collections--History--19th century.
• Beirne family.
• Beirne, Andrew, 1771-1845.
• Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876--Autographs.
• Chattanooga (Tenn.)--History.
• Clay, Henry, 1777-1852--Autographs.
• Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--Confederate States of America.
• Courtship--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Estates (Law)--West Virginia.
• Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877--Autographs.
• Garnett family.
• Gray, Asa, 1810-1888--Autographs.
• Key family.
• Knoxville (Tenn.)--History--19th century.
• Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870.
• Longstreet, James, 1821-1904.
• Love-letters.
• McLaws, Lafayette, 1821-1897.
• Robertson, Jerome Bonaparte, 1815-1890.
• Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877.
• Southern States--Genealogy.
• Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883.
• Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885.
• Washington (Ga.)--History.
• Yazoo City (Miss.)--History.

Garnett Andrews (1837-1903) of Washington, Ga., Yazoo, Miss., and Chattanooga, Tenn., was a Confederate army officer, and served as Judge-Advocate at the Confederate court-martial trial of Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) and Jerome Bonaparte Robertson (1815-1890).

Varied papers of Andrews, of Washington, Ga., Yazoo, Miss., and Chattanooga, Tenn., consisting of letters to him from Rosalie Beirne of Monroe County, W. Va., before and after their marriage in 1867; estate papers of Rosalie's father, Andrew Beirne of Monroe County; papers pertaining to the courts martial of Confederate generals Lafayette McLaws and Jerome Bonapart Robertson for actions during the Knoxville campaign (Andrews was a Confederate judge advocate); genealogical charts, correspondence, and other items relating primarily to the Andrews family, but also including material on the Beirne, Garnett, and Key families; and letters from, scrapbook of, and collection of autograph letters from famous persons to Andrews's sister, Eliza Frances Andrews of Georgia, author and illustrator under the name "Elzey Hay." Persons represented in the autograph collection include Braxton Bragg, Henry Clay, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Asa Gray, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Raphael Semmes, Alexander H. Stephens, and Robert Toombs.

• Photographs (PF 1839/1)