1800s CDV of CIVIL WAR shops Colonel Ellsworth in Uniform

Product Name: 1800s CDV of CIVIL WAR shops Colonel Ellsworth in Uniform
CDV of Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (April 11, 1837 – May 24, 1861) who was a United States Army officer and law clerk who was the first conspicuous casualty and the first Union officer to die in the American Civil War. He was killed while removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the Marshall House inn in Alexandria, Virginia. Before the war, Ellsworth led a touring military drill team, the "Zouave Cadets of Chicago". He was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who as President later eulogized him as "the greatest little man I ever met". After his death, Ellsworth's body lay in state at the White House. The phrase, "Remember Ellsworth", became a rallying cry and call to arms for the Union Army. A carte de visite is a photograph mounted on a piece of card the size of a formal visiting card. The format was patented by the French photographer Andre Adolphe Eugene shops Disdéri in 1854. People began to collect portraits of their family, friends and celebrities. The craze for collecting c.