Author: Various,
Title: Exercises connected with the Unveiling of the Ellsworth Monument, Mechanicville, May 27, 1874.
Description: Albany, NY, Joel Munsell, 1875. VG. Rust colored binding, gilt lettering & illustration of monument. Inscription showing presentation of book to T. G. Thompson (fund collector for erection of the monument) by the mother of Col. Ellsworth, 1875. Laid in letters from Thompson to his niece dated 1937 discussing how as a schoolboy Thompson first called attention to the unmarked grave of Ellsworth at Thompson's commencement speech in 1871. Also laid in two copies of the program fro the Memorial Service for Col. Ellsworth in 1977. Ellsworth organized the U. S. Zouave Cadets of Chicago where he taught new methods of military conduct, to be abstemious & enforced by rigid discipline such teaching. Afterwards Ellsworth went to Springfield, Illinois, where he hoped to secure Abraham Lincoln's help in founding a National Militia Bureau which would have all information & control of the militia; distribution of that information; a system of instruction for the militia; the uniform organization & equipment of state troops. Lincoln took Ellsworth as a student in his law office. Ellsworth submitted a bill embodying his ideas of militia reform but no action was taken at this point. When the Civil War began, commissioned second lieutenant in the army, Ellsworth's regiment was assigned to Alexandria where he met his death as he removed a Confederate flag from a building top and was shot by the house owner, who also died. Thus Ellsworth became the first Union officer to die in the Civil War. Lincoln wrote to Ellsworth's parents (included in the book) calling him "noble" and a loss to his country. All edges gilt, heavy edge wear.

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