Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios -  David Allan Russell

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                                  RUSSELL
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   RUSSELL, DAVID ALLAN, was born in Salem, New York, in December, 1820.
   Graduated at West Point in 1845, served in the Mexican war, and was
   brevetted for gallant conduct at Cerro Gordo and other places in
   Scott's campaign to the capital. At the beginning of the Civil War he
   was in the defenses of Washington, and in January, 1862, he was
   appointed colonel of the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment, which joined
   the Army of the Potomac and was engaged in most of the battles of
   McClellan's Peninsula campaign. He received several promotions for his
   services there, was then made major of the Eighth United States
   Infantry, and participated in the battles of South Mountain and
   Antietam. Two months later he was made a brigadier-general and placed
   in command of a brigade in the Sixth Corps. He was engaged at
   Fredericksburg, Salem, Beverly Ford, and Gettysburg, and was brevetted
   for gallantry in the last-named action. In the Overland campaign he
   commanded a division of the Sixth Corps and participated in the
   battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and
   those around Petersburg. He went with his corps to the Shenandoah
   Valley, where it formed an important part of the force with which
   Sheridan met Early, and in the battle of Opequan, or Winchester, while
   at the head of his command, he was struck by a cannon-ball and
   instantly killed.