CIVIL WAR 1861 CDV PORTRAIT COL. ELMER E. ELLSWORTH - 1st UNION MARTYR OF WAR
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:47867654 | Region of Origin: US |
| Subject: Historic & Vintage | Date of Creation: 1860-1869 |
| Original/Reprint: Original Print |
Original 1861 Civil War CDV photo of the 1st Union martyr of the Civil War, Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, a former law clerk in Abraham Lincoln's law office in Springfield, who commanded a Zouave Regiment, and was killed on May 24, 1861 after taking a Confederate flag down which was flying above the Marshall House in Alexandria, Va., when the proprietor shot him.
Measures approx. 2-1/2" x 3-3/4", with a portrait of Col. Ellsworth in uniform, based on a photograph. Printed at the bo...ttom is "COL. ELLSWORTH"
A scarce Ellsworth memorial item in a seldom seen format.
Top corners were clipped and have expert repairs restoring them. Fine.
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Measures approx. 2-1/2" x 3-3/4", with a portrait of Col. Ellsworth in uniform, based on a photograph. Printed at the bo...ttom is "COL. ELLSWORTH"
A scarce Ellsworth memorial item in a seldom seen format.
Top corners were clipped and have expert repairs restoring them. Fine.
COMBINED SHIPPING FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS.
[92]
NO SHIPPING OUTSIDE OF THE U.S.
