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Acc. 2013.060 was received by Special Collections via UPS on 2/6/2013 and 3/26/2013.
The papers were handed down through the family of David Allen Russell's sister, Mary Elizabeth Russell Hyde. From 2011 to 2012, the papers were on loan at the Slate Valley Museum in Granville, New York for an exhibit, and were purchased from the seller in January 2013.
Accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist.
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General David Allen Russell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Stock certificates and letters related to the Hyde family can be found at the Slate Valley Museum in Granville, New York.
This collection is arranged in chronological order.
This collection consists of correspondence, sketches, and other material mostly related to Union General David Allen Russell during the Civil War. Included in the papers are letters from the battlefield, hand-drawn sketches of the battlefield in Yorktown, Virginia and near Petersburg on the Appomattox River, issues of the