Ellsworth's Avengers: History of the 44th New York Infantry (Shaun C. Grenan - UA) investigation and served with Lee’s Army

and served with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia for its entire existence

Gottfried recounts the events surrounding the creation of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery

and voluminous trial evidence made public only in recent years

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Ellsworth's Avengers: History of the 44th New York Infantry (Shaun C. Grenan - UA) investigation and served with Lee’s Armyby Shaun C. Grenan On the 24th of May, 1861, at Alexandria, Virginia, Elmer Ellsworth, the Colonel of the 1st New York Fire Zouave regiment was assassinated by a Confederate innkeeper and militia officer. The outcry among the people of the North was loud, fierce, and instantaneous. Elmer Ellsworth was not only a nation wide military hero, celebrity, and a close friend and confidant of the Lincoln Family, but he was the ideal soldier of the Victorian