Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861 [Special order]

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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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