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- GLC#
- GLC08169
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 06 May 1861
- Author/Creator
- Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861
- Title
- [Special order]
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Setting up the orders of the day for the 1st New York Fire Zouaves. Gives orders about breakfast and duties. States a police guard should be posted at 5 o'clock and allow no one to pass. Charges the quartermaster with inspecting the guns, and orders captains to hand in a roll of their commands by 9 o'clock. Ellsworth organized the NY Fire Zouaves from volunteer NY firefighters. He was killed on 24 May 1861 and was the first well known individual to die in the Civil War.
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