Ellsworth helped recruit these soldiers: he raised the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment (the "Fire Zouaves") from New York City's volunteer firefighting companies, and returned to Washington as their colonel.Įllsworth died shortly after returning to Washington. The Civil War broke into open warfare in April, and on April 15, 1861, Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to put down rebellion. Ellsworth's unit eventually became a nationally famous drill team. He outfitted his men in gaudy Zouave-style uniforms, and modeled their drill and training on the Zouaves. When he moved to Chicago he became colonel of Chicago's National Guard Cadets.Įllsworth had studied the Zouave soldiers, French colonial troops in Algeria, and was impressed by their reported fighting quality. After some success with the Greys, he helped train militia units in Milwaukee and Madison. He studied military science in his spare time. in 1861.Įllsworth became drillmaster of the "Rockford Greys", the local militia company, in 1857. Ellsworth was only 5' 6" tall, but Lincoln called Ellsworth "the greatest little man I ever met." He accompanied Lincoln to Washington, D.C. He studied law in Lincoln's office and helped Lincoln with his 1860 campaign for president. In 1860, Ellsworth went to Springfield, Illinois, to work with Abraham Lincoln. Carrie's father demanded that he find more suitable employment, so he moved to Chicago, to study law and work as a law clerk. In 1859, he became engaged to Carrie Spafford, the daughter of a local industrialist and city leader. In 1854, he moved to Rockford, Illinois, where he worked for a patent agency. The phrase, “Remember Ellsworth”, became a rallying cry and call to arms for the Union Army.Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (Ap– May 24, 1861) was a lawyer and soldier, best known as the first conspicuous casualty of the American Civil War.Įllsworth was born in Malta, New York, grew up in Mechanicville, New York, and lived in New York City. After his death, Ellsworth’s body lay in state at the White House. After Ellsworth was killed removing a Confederate flag from The Marshall House, Lincoln eulogized him as “the greatest little man I ever met”. When the president-elect moved to Washington in 1861, Ellsworth accompanied him. The young clerk and Lincoln became friends truthfully more like family. Octavo 1page.īorn in Pennsylvania in 1837, Elmer Ellsworth moved to Springfield, IL in 1860, taking a job as a law clerk in Abraham Lincoln’s office. (Ellsworth, Elmer) Printed Menu MARSHALL HOUSE, / J. Note very good written in readable pencil a few wrinkles. Menu very good folds small lower corner chip. The note further states that it was taken “out of a bar room near the Relay House.” Ellsworth’s Officers and given by him to the Captain of the Zouaves and by the Captain to Charlie” - on the verso the Captain is identified as Arthur Devereaux and Charlie as Clerk Charles A. Jackson, shot Ellsworth as he was descending the stairs clutching the flag, was in turn shot by Brownell.Įllsworth was the first Union officer to be killed in the Civil War while Brownell became known as “The Avenger.” WITH a contemporary 1-page handwritten note explaining that it was “taken from the Marshall House by one of Col. Original Menu from Marshall House where Elmer Ellsworth, along with Sergeant Francis Brownell and a few other Zouaves, went to haul down a secessionist flag flying on the roof.
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