Edwards family papers, 1851-1888

Summary

Creator:

Edwards family

Date:

1851-1888

Extent:

1.75 Linear Feet 4 boxes

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Edwards family papers, ms2938, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of correspondence, programs and other printed material, receipts, newspaper clippings, and broadsides. The correspondence is mainly business letters to Leroy Summerfield Edwards about his work. Much of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia correspondence concerns the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans and the request for aid by the Regiment of the Orlean Artillery. There are several family letters, some written to Edwards from his parents while he served in the Civil War (12th Virginia Infantry, Co. E), and one written by Edwards while he was a prisoner at Elmira (NY) Prison Camp. The other material in the collection relates to the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia, YMCA, Civil War, Randolph-Macon College, Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company, and politics.

Biographical / historical:

Leroy Summerfield Edwards (1839-1900) lived in Richmond, Virginia and was the son of Reverend John E. Edwards and Elizabeth Agnes Clark Edwards. He was a home office agent for Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company in Richmond; president of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Richmond; secretary of the Association of the Virginia Division of the Army of Northern Virginia; and professor/principal in several schools and colleges, including Petersburg Female College.

Arrangement:

Organized into three series: letterbook; correspondence, financial, and printed material; and scrapbook.

Related

Related material:

Related collections in other repositories: Leroy S. Edwards Papers, McGraw-Page Library, Randolph-Macon College and Letters of LeRoy S. Edwards written during the Civil War including a few letters by his father, Reverend John Edwards and family friends concerned about LeRoy Edwards imprisonment, E467.1 .E48 1985.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Prisoners of war -- New York (State) -- Correspondence.
Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America -- Correspondence.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Correspondence.
Teachers -- Virginia -- Correspondence.
Yellow fever -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Correspondence

Names:

Randolph-Macon College -- History--19th century--Sources
Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company -- Employees--Correspondence
Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity -- History--19th century--Sources
Petersburg Female College -- Faculty--Correspondence
Association of the Army of Northern Virginia -- Records and correspondence
Young Men's Christian Association (Richmond, Va.) -- Presidents--Correspondence
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 12th -- Records and correspondence
Edwards, Elizabeth Agnes Clark -- Correspondence
Edwards, Leroy Summerfield, 1839-1900 -- Correspondence
Edwards, John E. -- Correspondence

Preferred citation:

Edwards family papers, ms2938, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.