1-149-708 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Colonel Charles Lambert Russel, American soldier, (1872). Union soldier Russel (1828-1862) was killed at Roanoke on 8 February 1862. The Battle of Roanoke Island, also known as the Battle of Fort Huger, took place February 7/8, 1862, in Dare County, North Carolina, as part of Union Army Brigadier General Ambrose E Burnside's North Carolina expedition during the American Civil War. Engraving from A Child's History of the United States by John Gilmary Shea, published by Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872).