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Acquisition Note: Source: Mildred Lee Dawson McLean by donation.
Preferred Citation: Russell S. Dawson Memoir, MSS 0000-518, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Scope and Contents: Memoir recounting Russell Dawson's boyhood memories of the Civil War, particularly the capture of Norfolk, Virginia by the Union in May 1862.