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Collection Number: 00645

Collection Title: Daniel Lindsay Russell Papers, 1839-1910.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


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.

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Size 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2,000 items)
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.
Creator Russell, Daniel Lindsay, 1845-1908.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
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, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions 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.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.
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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1839-1840, 1863-1865

Folder 2-3

Folder 2

Folder 3

1874

Folder 4

1875-1879

Folder 5-7

Folder 5

Folder 6

Folder 7

1880

Folder 8-9

Folder 8

Folder 9

1881

Folder 10-13

Folder 10

Folder 11

Folder 12

Folder 13

1882

Folder 14

1883

Folder 15

1884-1889

Folder 16

1890-1895

Folder 16-19

Folder 16

Folder 17

Folder 18

Folder 19

1896

Folder 19

1897-1899

Folder 20-25

Folder 20

Folder 21

Folder 22

Folder 23

Folder 24

Folder 25

1900

Folder 26-36

Folder 26

Folder 27

Folder 28

Folder 29

Folder 30

Folder 31

Folder 32

Folder 33

Folder 34

Folder 35

Folder 36

1901

Folder 37-52

Folder 37

Folder 38

Folder 39

Folder 40

Folder 41

Folder 42

Folder 43

Folder 44

Folder 45

Folder 46

Folder 47

Folder 48

Folder 49

Folder 50

Folder 51

Folder 52

1902

Folder 53-56

Folder 53

Folder 54

Folder 55

Folder 56

1903

Folder 57-62

Folder 57

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

Folder 61

Folder 62

1904

Folder 63-81

Folder 63

Folder 64

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

Folder 68

Folder 69

Folder 70

Folder 71

Folder 72

Folder 73

Folder 74

Folder 75

Folder 76

Folder 77

Folder 78

Folder 79

Folder 80

Folder 81

1905

Folder 82-85

Folder 82

Folder 83

Folder 84

Folder 85

1906

Folder 86

1907

Folder 87

1908

Folder 88

1909

Folder 89

1910-1911, 1945

Image Folder PF-645/1

Photographs

Includes photographs of Daniel L. Russell and family members and plantations including Winnabow, Belleville, and Palo Alto.

Extra Oversize Paper Folder X-OPF-645/1

Oversize papers

Includes a manuscript map of Belleville in Burnswick County, N.C., home of Daniel L. Russell form 1901-1908, drawn with features as they appeared in 1906 by Daniel R. Sawyer in June 1966.

Folder 89

Biographical sketch

Folder 90-91

Folder 90

Folder 91

Undated legal papers

Folder 92

Undated correspondence

Folder 93

Undated memoranda

Folder 94

"Sarah Amanda Sanders Russell: First Lady of North Carolina, 1897-1901," 1973

Folder 95

"Daniel Lindsay Russell: A Family and Friend's Memoir"

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