Daniel Lindsay Russell Papers, 1839-1910.

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Summary

Creator:
Russell, Daniel Lindsay, 1845-1908.
Abstract:

Daniel Lindsay Russell was a Wilmington, N.C. lawyer; Confederate Army officer; Republican leader of eastern North Carolina; judge; United States Representative, 1879-1881; and Republican-Populist governor, 1897-1901.

Half of the collection consists of papers, 1900-1905, related to the South Dakota Bond Case, a famous and complicated litigation over North Carolina's repudiation of bonds issued during Reconstruction. Correspondents include Marion Butler, Alfred Russell, and Addison G. Ricard. The collection includes extensive political correspondence, chiefly 1874-1897, about the efforts to strengthen the Republican Party in North Carolina. Other papers include correspondence with Russell's New York cotton brokers; papers concerning his Confederate Army court martial, 1863-1864; a biography of Russell by two friends, Louis Goodman and Alice Sawyer Cooper (typescript, 111 pages); and a biography of his wife, Sarah Amanda (Sanders) Russell (1844-1913). Also included is some correspondence with his law partner, Louis Goodman.

Extent:
2,000 items (2.5 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
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Background

Biographical / historical:

Daniel Lindsay Russell (1845-1908) was a Wilmington, N.C. lawyer; Confederate Army officer; Republican leader of eastern North Carolina; judge; United States Representative, 1879-1881; and Republican-Populist governor, 1897-1901. Russell was educated by private teachers and also at the Bingham School in Orange County, N.C. He enrolled at the University of North Carolina, but when the Civil War broke out a few months later, he returned to Wilmington to raise a company. He achieved the rank of captain but was court-martialed in 1863 on charges by William M. Swann for conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline and with insubordination. As a result of subsequent escalation, Russell was sentenced to death, however, the sentence was commuted by President Jefferson Davis and in late 1864 Russell was restored to his command. After the war, Russell was admitted to the bar in North Carolina and became a Republican leader in North Carolina, holding various public offices including those mentioned above.

His wife was Sarah Amanda Sanders Russell (1844-1913), a native of Onslow County, N.C., and daugther of Isaac Newton Sanders and Caroline Burns Sanders.

Scope and content:

Half of the collection consists of papers, 1900-1905, related to the South Dakota Bond Case, a famous and complicated litigation over North Carolina's repudiation of bonds issued during Reconstruction. Correspondents include Marion Butler, Alfred Russell, and Addison G. Ricard. The collection includes extensive political correspondence, chiefly 1874-1897, about the efforts to strengthen the Republican Party in North Carolina. Some items also discuss voting fraud, campaign tactics, and other political maneuvers. Other papers include correspondence with Russell's New York cotton brokers relating market conditions; papers concerning his Confederate Army court martial, 1863-1865; a biography of Russell by two friends, Louis Goodman and Alice Sawyer Cooper (typescript, 111 pages); and a biography of his wife, Sarah Amanda (Sanders) Russell. Also included is some correspondence with his law partner, Louis Goodman.

Prominent correspondents include Thomas C. Fuller, W. H. Whiting, Zebulon B. Vance, George Little, James H. Hill, R. T. Bennett, A. H. Perry, C. R. Thomas, Tazewell L. Hargrove, Rufus Clay Barringer, Thomas Richard Purnell, John Pool, Jonathan W. Albertson, Fabius Haywood Busbee, Jeter Conley Pritchard, Richmond Pearson, and Walter McKenzie Clark.

Acquisition information:

Received from Frances Sawyer of New York, N.Y., prior to 1940.

Additional materials received from Mrs. Louis Goodman of Wilmington, N.C., 1959; and Mrs. Hal B. Cooper of Limon and Brandon, Fla., 1959, June and August 1964, July 1966, and November 1973.

Processing information:

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Access and use

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Daniel Lindsay Russell Papers, #645, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu