![]() At the beginning of May, Lincoln had asked for 42,000 more volunteers to supplement the militiamen called up in April. Army recruiting offices were mobbed as they had not been since the first week of the war. Here is how Goodheart portrays the aftermath of Ellsworth’s death:īy the following evening, public gatherings in New York and other major cities offered grandiloquent testimonials and took up collections for the support of Ellsworth’s parents, left destitute by the death of their only child. In his new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam Goodheart explains that Ellsworth was not merely a surrogate little brother to Lincoln, but also an exemplar of the romantic idealism that characterized the generation of Americans that came of age in the 1850s. The innkeeper was immediately gunned down by one of Ellsworth’s men the colonel became the first Union officer to die in the Civil War. Elmer Ellsworth of the 11th New York Volunteers. The next day, an enraged innkeeper there fired a shotgun point-blank into the chest of Col. ![]() President Abraham Lincoln ordered troops to occupy the port city of Alexandria. ![]() On May 23, 1861, Virginia seceded from the Union. ![]()
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