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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Andrew T. Long Papers, #433, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Andrew T. Long, November 1938. Addition received from Mrs. Andrew T. Long, August 1949.

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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Autobiographies--United States.
• Long, Andrew T. (Andrew Theodore), 1866-1946.
• United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation--Officials and employees.
• United States. Navy--Officers--Biography.
• United States. Navy--Photographs.
• United States. Navy--Sea life--History--20th century.
• United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet--Officials and employees.
• United States. Navy. General Board--Officials and employees.
• United States. Office of Naval Intelligence--Officials and employees.
• Women--Oceania--Photographs.

Andrew Theodore Long (1866-1946) of Iredell County, N.C., was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He was educated at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., graduating in 1887, and entered the Navy as an ensign in 1889. Long's 47-year naval career was distinguished and included involvement in many of America's major naval engagements and achievements of the early 20th century. Long served aboard the battleship Minnesota in the Spanish-American War; was stationed in Chinese waters during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900; navigated the cruiser Vicksburg in transporting troops to the Philippines for a campaign against Emilio Aguinando's insurrection, 1901-1902; was executive officer of the U.S.S. Illinois as part of the Great White Fleet which circumnavigated the globe, 1907-1908; and in World War I commanded two battleships, the Connecticut and the Nevada. In the 1920s Long was the director of naval intelligence, chief of staff for the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, and member of the General Board of the Navy. Long also held various honorary and diplomatic positions including commander of the presidential yacht Mayflower, 1906-1907, during which time he befriended President Theodore Roosevelt; naval attache to the United States embassies in Italy at Rome, Austria at Vienna, and France at Paris; liaison officer for the Supreme War Council during World War I; and aide to the king and queen of Belgium on the their visit to the United States in 1924 and also to Queen Marie of Romania in 1928.

Andrew T. Long was married to Viola Vetter Fife in 1928. They had no children.

The collection includes naval correspondence and social and personal letters of Andrew Theodore Long of Iredell County, N.C. Most papers are from the 1920s, while Long was director of naval intelligence, chief of staff for the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, and member of the General Board of the Navy. They include routine letters from high ranking American military and civilian officials. Also included are manuscript memoirs (273 pages) of Long titled "Around the World in Sixty Years" detailing his military career and experiences stationed in South America, Australia, Europe, East Asia, and the South Pacific. There are also loose photographs of Andrew T. Long, other individuals including Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, and scenes, as well as an album of photographs of ships, and an album of photographs of women of the South Pacific region.

• Photographs (IB-433/1, OP-PF-433/1, X-OPF-433/1)
• Photograph albums (PA-433/1-2)