Ira Russell letters : correspondence and report, 1862-1863.

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Ira Russell letters : correspondence and report, 1862-1863.

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Collection contains five letters written by Dr. Ira Russell and his son Fred Russell while Dr. Russell was stationed in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7371354

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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Russell, Fred, 1906-2003

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Russell, Ira.

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Dr. Ira Russell (1815-1888) was a Union Army surgeon stationed in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in late 1862 and early 1863. A New Hampshire native, Russell received his education at Dartmouth and the University of New York, graduating with an M.D. from the latter, in 1844. Also in that year he married Rowena Greenwood, and the couple afterwards made their home in Winchendon and Natick, Massachusetts. They had at least three children prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, Fred, Jennie, and Erwin. In ...