F. Stanley Russell Letters

490 THL

Inventory created by Archives Staff 01/1984. Last revised 04/2020.

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EXTENT: 0.21 linear feet

DATE: 1837 - 1924

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection contains correspondences of F. Stanley Russell to his parents, sister and cousin during his service in the Civil War until his death in May 1864. He served in Company H, Thirteenth VA Regiment, C.S.A. Also included in this collection are letters and reports from William W. Hayden and Annie Russell Hack.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL:  F. Stanley enlisted in Company H, Thirteenth Virginia Infantry in Winchester, VA. just one week after the firing on Fort Sumter and served with the regiment until his death at the Battle of Spotsylvania in May, 1864. The Civil War letters of  F. Stanley Russell, including those in this collection, appear in the book The Letters of F. Stanley Russell - The Movements of Company H, Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, Confederate States Army, 1861-1864, edited by Douglas Carroll, Paul M. Harrod Company, Baltimore, April 1963.

Annie Russell Hack was F. Stanley Russell’s sister. She married Andrew Hack. There is a record of a William Hayden of Harpers Ferry as having attended Georgetown University in 1837 and 1838. He enlisted in on March 3, 1863 in Caroline County, Va. as a private in Captain J. D. Smith’s Company, Light Artillery. He was killed at Chancellorsville in May 1863. There is some confusion about the middle initial of this individual, which appears as either a W or N in these sources.
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: : Carroll, Douglas, ed., The Letters of F. Stanley Russell, The Movements of Company H, Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, Confederate States Army, 1861-1864, Paul M. Harrod Company, Baltimore, MD, April, 1963; Georgetown University Alumni Association, Blue and Grey: Georgetown University and the Civil War, 1961; Koleszar, Marilyn Brewer. Ashland, Bedford, and Taylor Virginia Light Artillery, Virginia Regimental Histories Series, 1994.

CITE AS: F. Stanley Russell Collection, 490 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA.

BOX 1

The first three folders contain correspondence from F. Stanley Russell while he was a member of Company H, 13^th Virginia Regiment. A mark in the transcript column indicates that a transcript is available in the fourth folder.

Correspondence, Russell, F. Stanley, written while a member of Company H, 13^th Virginia Regiment,  August 26, 1861 to August 22, 1863 (folder contains the following):

Correspondence, Russell, F. Stanley, written while a member of Company H, 13^th Virginia Regiment,  September 5, 1863 - December 25, 1863 (folder contains the following):

Correspondence, Russell, F. Stanley, written while a member of Company H, 13^th Virginia Regiment,  January 1, 1864 - May 19, 1864 (folder contains the following):

Correspondence, transcripts, incomplete, Russell, F. Stanley, correspondence while a member of Company H, 13^th Virginia
Regiment, August 26, 1861 to May 19, 1864 (folder includes the following):
- Transcripts of selected letters in folders 1 through 3, 21 pages, typescript
- Transcript of letter dated January 5, 1863 from F. Stanley Russell to his sister describing the Battle of Fredericksburg., 3 pages, typescript. The Archives does not hold the original of this letter.

Correspondence, Annie Russell Hack, 1896-1924, 11 pages, 11 envelopes, manuscript; 4 envelopes, blank

Papers, William W. Hayden, school reports, Georgetown College, November 19, 1837 to June 18, 1838 (folder contains the following):
- Correspondence, 10 leaves, manuscript
- Reports, Georgetown College, 1837-8, 3 items, manuscript on printed form

Essay, Hayden, William W., Napoleon Bonaparte, 1 item, 4 pages, manuscript