Describing the Battle of Wilson's Creek, and his participation there, including an eye-witness account of the death of General Nathaniel Lyon, in an autograph letter, signed 5 March 1925 from the Kansas National Military Home, to Jeannette Trowbridge of Eastford, Connecticut.
1925. Folio. Eight pages, approximately 2750 words; accompanied by another autograph letter from Russell to Trowbridge (14 March 1925; 4to, four pages, approximately 750 words), with more information on the political situation in Missouri on the eve of war, and an autograph transcription by Russell of the long poem "The..... More