The pictures on the listing page are of the actual book for sale, NOT stock photos. Near fine hardcover in a good+, mylar covered, unclipped dust jacket. Born in New York State in 1837, killed in Virginia in 1861 (the first officer victim of the Civil War), Elmer Ellsworth was a beloved figure whose death shocked the North. In a bright, colorful style which draws back the curtain of time, Ruth Painter Randall depicts this "man of the hour" a century ago. His buoyant popularity came on the heels of a triumphant tour: his Zouaves, in their exotic baggy-trousered uniforms, performed their gymnastic drills in twenty Eastern cities. The young man - scarcely more than a boy - was Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, commander of the U.S. Lincoln wrote to Ellsworth’s parents, “our affliction here is scarcely less than your own….In the hope that it may be no intrusion on the sacredness of your sorrow, I have ventured to address you this tribute to the memory of my young friend and your brave and early fallen child.In the summer of 1860, a magnetic young man stole a march on his friend Abraham Lincoln by being "the most-talked-of man in the country." Mayors exalted him, soldiers honored him, mothers wrote him grateful letters, school-girls sighed over his handsome features. Ellsworth’s body lay in state in the East Room of the White House before being sent home to New York for his funeral and burial. Songs were written in mourning and in tribute.Įllsworth’s photographs were widely reproduced.įor Abraham Lincoln, Ellsworth’s death was an intensely personal blow. To the Union, Ellsworth became the war’s first martyr.Īt least fifty print portraits of the Union’s new hero were published, including this one reproduced on the cover of Col. One of his companions, Francis Brownell, shot and killed Jackson. Ellsworth tore the flag down, but as he ran triumphantly back down the stairs, flag in hand, he was shot in the chest by the hotel proprietor, James Jackson.
Ellsworth led a group of seven men on a more or less personal mission to remove a Confederate flag that was flying from the roof of the Marshall Hotel and that could be seen from the White House. Ellsworth, a personal friend and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, is widely considered to have been the first officer killed during the Civil War. The Fire Zouaves was one of the units sent to take control of Alexandria, just across the Potomac from Washington, after Virginia seceded in May 1861. The unit was sworn in by President Lincoln in Washington on April 29, 1861. Infantry), a 1,100-man unit made up of New York City firemen. When the Civil War broke out, he returned to his home in New York long enough to organize the Fire Zouaves (the 11 th N.Y.
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He was a Zouave drill instructor who toured with his corps of cadets demonstrating synchronized drills and impressing the ladies, including Mary Lincoln’s sister Kitty, with whom he had a brief flirtation.Įllsworth wrote a training manual for Zouave units, published in 1861.
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After Lincoln’s election, Ellsworth traveled with the family to Washington, where he was given an appointment in the War Department and spent his free time at the White House.īut Ellsworth also had military interests. Lincoln treated him as family-Ellsworth visited the Lincoln home and roughhoused with Willie and Tad, who idolized him. He was also a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln and his family.Įllsworth was reading law in Lincoln’s Springfield office during the presidential campaign and election in 1860. In fact, perhaps the shedding of blood over a.
That he did not die in battle, but in a boarding house dispute over a Confederate flag, has not diminished his fame. A good-looking celebrity soldier, he was almost literally the First Fallen of the Union war dead. Ellsworth of New York was the first Union officer killed in the Civil War. Elmer Ellsworth is a figure that all of us know about, but few know well.
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