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☷Camp Huachuca founder s descendant visits the old Calvary outpost
U.S. Army ( By Press Release office)
May 05,2022
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Retired Col . Samuel L . Russell , with the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute , Carlisle Barracks , Pa . , visited with Maj . Gen . Anthony R . Hale , Fort Huachuca and USAICoE commanding general , April 29 - 30 . Left to right , John “Dusty” Whitside Samouce of Tucson , Ariz . ; Maj . Gen . Anthony R . Hale , Fort Huachuca and U . S . Army Intelligence Center of Excellence commanding general; and retired Col . Samuel L . Russell , Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute , Carlisle Barracks , Pa . Hale presented Russell with copies of the letters on file that were sent from Camp Huachuca during the early years at Alvarado Hall , April 29 . Left to Right , John “Dusty” Whitside Samouce of Tucson , Ariz . ; retired Col . Samuel L . Russell , Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute , Carlisle Barracks , Pa . ; and Stephen Gregory , Fort Huachuca Museum technician , take a look at ledgers from Camp Huachuca , April 29 . ( Courtesy photo by Caroline Whitside ) Retired Col . Samuel L . Russell , Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute , is pictured with his mother , Ann Samouce Russell , when they visited Fort Huachuca in 1972 . ( Courtesy photo provided by Sam Russell ) FORT HUACHUCA , Ariz . — Retired Col . Samuel L . Russell , with the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute , Carlisle Barracks , Pa . , visited Fort Huachuca and the U . S . Army Intelligence Center of Excellence ( USAICoE ) , April 29 - 30 . A descendant of Brig . Gen . S . M . Whitside , Russell brought several personal items that belonged to his ancestor to include a pocket watch , photo album when Whitside was a commander in Cuba from 1901 - 1902 , and personal letters that he shared with the Fort Huachuca museum . He also sat down with Maj . Gen . Anthony R . Hale , Fort Huachuca and USAICoE commanding general . “It’s important to remember the history of how Fort Huachuca came to be , and what better way to do that then to visit with the descendants of the installation’s founder , ” said Hale . “We have to remember where we come from to know where we are going . ” During the office visit , Hale gave Russell copies of the letters on file that were sent from Camp Huachuca during the early years . “Each Army post was required to maintain a copy of all the official letters sent from the post . Those records should have been sent to the National Archives in Washington DC . However , Camp Huachuca ' s "Letters Sent" disappeared and were never archived , ” Russell said . “Somehow they had ended up in an officer ' s private collection of family papers , and about six years ago , were gifted back to the Fort Huachuca Museum . ” When the letters were gifted back to the museum , a digital copy was shared with Russell but he was elated to have the letters in hard copy . “It was a great surprise to me when General Hale presented the books to me , ” he said . “I regularly research on the frontier Army , and those letters will make a great addition to my library and aid materially in my research . ” Russell was named after Samuel Whitside , and his daughter was named after Samuel Whitside’s wife , Caroline McGavock Whitside . During this visit , he brought his daughter and uncle with him . “I had visited once with my family in about 1972 , and once as a captain in 1997 . The museum was closed when I visited in 1997 , so I was really looking forward to seeing the site , ” he said . “It was neat to stop by and see some of the old family history . ”
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