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- GLC#
- GLC03617.09-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- circa 1861
- Author/Creator
- Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861
- Title
- On the Death of Col. Ellsworth
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 13.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Published by J. Magee at 316 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Image at the top is same as image at GLC03617.07. Depicits Ellsworth falling backward as he was shot. He is grasping the Confederate flag while another soldier returns fire with a rifle over his shoulder. Colored with red and blue. Three stanza song. First stanza says: "The muffled drum beats low; / Our nation's flag droops here, / Drap'd in the dark weeds of wo; / A sword is on the bier. / A saddened nation weeps, / Where her dead soldier sleeps."
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