[Scrapbooks of clippings on M. J. Russell, 1861-1890's].

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[Scrapbooks of clippings on M. J. Russell, 1861-1890's].

Scrapbooks of clippings on the career of Martin James Russell, Civil War period to the 1890's. Volume 1 includes materials on James Mulligan and the Irish Brigade in the Civil War. Volume 2 includes materials on Chicago's South Park Commissioners.

2 v. ; 31-36 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7209294

Chicago History Museum

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Russell, Martin James, 1845-1900.

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Chicago (Ill.). South Park Commissioners.

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United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1861-1864)

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Mulligan, Marian Nugent, 1841?-1908,

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Mulligan, James Adelbert, 1830-1864

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Lawyer; clerk at the Department of the Interior beginning in 1857; Colonel of the Irish Brigade (23rd Illinois regiment) during the Civil War. At the Battle of Lexington, Missouri, in 1861 he was taken prisoner, only to be freed through an exchange later that year. He was fatally wounded at the Battle of Winchester, Virginia, in July, 1864. From the description of Papers, 1857-1885. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25210578 Colonel in the 23rd Illinois Infantr...