Mary Todd Lincoln’s cousin, Elizabeth Grimsley, wrote to her family that Ellsworth “was a great pet in the family and Mr. Click on the folllowing link for an online exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery about Elmer Ellsworth. But as he descended to the main floor, Jackson fired on Ellsworth at point-blank range with a shotgun, killing him instantly. Finding no resistance, he took down the flag. So Ellsworth may have wanted to get that flag down quickly to prevent trouble.”Īt the Marshall House, Barber adds, “Colonel Ellsworth just happened to meet the one person he didn’t want to meet”-innkeeper James Jackson, a zealous defender of slavery (and, says Barber, a notorious slave abuser) with a penchant for violence.Įllsworth approached the inn with only four troopers. National Portrait Gallery historian James Barber notes that “the Zouaves were an unruly bunch, spoiling for a fight, and when they got into Alexandria they may have felt they were already in the thick of it. The regiment, organized only six weeks earlier, encountered no resistance as it moved through the city. As it happened, an 8- by 14-foot Confederate flag-large enough to be seen by spyglass from the White House-had been visible in Alexandria for weeks, flown from the roof of an inn, the Marshall House. On May 24, 1861, the day after Virginia voters ratified the state convention’s decision to secede from the Union, Ellsworth and his Zouave troops entered Alexandria, Virginia, to assist in the occupation of the city.
He even designed a uniform with baggy trousers in the Zouave style. Ellsworth by Owen Edwards:Ī student of military history and tactics, Ellsworth admired the Zouaves, Algerian troops fighting with the French Army in North Africa, and had employed their training methods with his cadets. Smithsonian Magazine’s article, The Death of Col. In 1860, he campaigned for Lincoln. Once Lincoln was elected, Ellsworth followed him to Washington, D.C. In 1860, he moved, with his wife Carrie Spafford, to Springfield, Illinois, where he read law in Abraham Lincoln’s office. At the time, Ellsworth commanded the 11th New York Volunteers, also known as the First Fire Zouaves.īorn and raised in upstate New York, Elmer moved to Rockford, Illinois, in 1854. He died on May 24, 1861, the day after Virginia seceded from the Union. Ellsworth was murdered by a civilian Confederate innkeeper in Alexandria, Virginia. The first Union officer killed in the Civil War.Īt the age of 24, Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth died in battle, the first Union soldier killed in the Civil War. The work abounds in quotations because the subject is not treated in a controversial manner, but rather strives to establish the historical background of the third term precedent from a variety of sources, including as many of the original sources as possible.Then your ancestor was named for Elmer Ellsworth, However, this paper in no way touches on the present situation, but is a historical treatment of the precedent itself up to and including Calvin Coolidge. That is especially true of the campaign (1940) which is now being fought.
In our national history there have been several presidential elections in which the third term question was a major issue. Out of the wealth of material which is available I have attempted so far as possible to select impartially representative utterances on both sides of the question. From Washington to Franklin Roosevelt many different viewoints and arguments have been advanced. history of the precedent rather than an argument for or against it. In discussing the Third Term Tradition, I have tried to compile a.
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