Financial records for construction of Fort Point, San Francisco : ADS, 1847-1857 (bulk 1855-1857).

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Financial records for construction of Fort Point, San Francisco : ADS, 1847-1857 (bulk 1855-1857).

Monthly cash statements, vouchers, and other fiscal records related to construction of Fort Point, under the direction of Lt. Col. R.E. De Russy, of the Army Corps of Engineers.

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De Russy, René Edward, 1790-1865

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Edward De Russy was born into a family of ethnic French planters in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) on February 22, 1789. Two years later, soon after the birth of his younger brother Lewis, the De Russy family fled the violence of the slave revolution and settled in Old Point Comfort, Virginia. At the age of 18, De Russy enrolled in the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on March 20, 1807; he graduated on June 10, 1812, at the bottom of his class. After...