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THBEllsworth Zouave Broadside
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LiveJun 22, 2018
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Printed broadside, 5.25 x 8.25 in., advertising an "Exhibition Drill of the Ellsworth Zouave Corps...under the Direction of Major De Witt." Philadelphia: Alexander, Caloric Power Printer, n.d., ca 1861. Broadside with bold heading reading, "American Academy of Music" at top and decorative border surrounding text. Broadside informs that the exhibition drill is to take place on September 12, 1861, and will include, "Music by the Germania Orchestra and Baxter's Regimental Band." Bottom of broadside features the program for the exhibition, listing musical numbers and drill components such as "Company Movements and Manual of Arms," "Loadings and Firings," and "Skirmish Drill and Bayonet Exercise." The Ellsworth Zouaves were named after Elmer Ellsworth (1837-1861), who is most famous for being the first Union officer to die during the Civil War.
A close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, Ellsworth worked on Lincoln's 1860 campaign and even followed him to Washington, D. C. upon his election. Ellsworth worked as a law clerk professionally, but also studied military science on the side. His interest in the Zouaves, French colonial soldiers in Algeria, inspired him to dress and model his own units after them. Ellsworth served as drillmaster of the "Rockford Greys" in 1857, became colonel of the Chicago National Guard Cadets thereafter, and helped raise the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry, also known as the "Fire Zouaves," at the outset of the Civil War. On May 24, 1861, Ellsworth was fatally shot in the chest while removing a Confederate flag from the roof of Marshall House Inn in Alexandria, Virginia. This very clear act of aggression was a harbinger of the war to come, and it cost Lincoln a friend he described as, "the greatest little man [he] ever met." Ellsworth's Zouave-inspired military style and the popular Union rallying cry, "Remember Ellsworth," helped cement his legacy and propel his heroism beyond his unit and his home state of New York.
Broadside has some creasing, and minor soiling in a few places.Condition
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