Gustavus De Russy

Gustavus Adolphus De Russy (November 3, 1818 – May 29, 1891) was a US Army career officer, who was a part of the prominent De Russy military family. He was promoted to the rank of general during the American Civil War. Gustavus's sister, Clara Louise De Russey (1829–1900), married William Augustus Nichols (1818–1869), who became a Brevet Maj. Gen. His sister, Emily Caroline De Russy (1831–1857), married Henry Jackson Hunt (1819–1889), who became a Brig. Gen.

After his mother's death in 1834, his father remarried to Helen Augusta Maxwell (1832–1908). Through this marriage, De Russy was the half-brother of Fanny De Russy (1857–1925), who married Eli D. Hoyle (1851–1921); and Sara Wetmore De Russy (1860–1926), who married Arthur Murray (1851–1925). Both brothers-in-law were also career officers, as were their sons.

He remained in the army following the war, serving as quartermaster at Fort Monroe from 1848 until 1857. That year he was promoted to captain. He was promoted to colonel in March 1863 and again to brigadier general of volunteers in May of the same year. He commanded the southern defenses of Washington, D.C. until the end of the war. She was the daughter of Captain John Clitz (1790–1836), who died while in command of Fort Mackinac, sister of Rear Admiral John M. B. Clitz (1821–1897), Commander of the Asiatic Squadron; and Brig. Gen. Henry Boynton Clitz (1824–1888), the Commandant of Cadets at the West Point from 1862 to 1864.

Together, she and De Russy had the following children: René Edward De Russy (1858–1860), who died young. Emily Clitz De Russy (1862–1949), who married John Trust Sickel (1862–1921) on July 21, 1898, in Alma, Michigan. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in his hometown.