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Statehood (11th) on July 26, 1788
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Malta, New York is the birthplace of Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (April 11, 1837 – May 24, 1861). He later moved to Mechanicville and later to New York City. He was a Colonel in the U.S. Army. Ellsworth was the first conspicuous casualty and the first Union officer to die in the American Civil War.
Colonel Elmer Ellsworth was killed while removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the Marshall House Inn in Alexandria, Virginia on May 24, 1861 at the aged of 24. Ellsworth was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who as President later eulogized him as “the greatest little man I ever met”.
Following the fall of Fort Sumter to Confederate Army troops in mid-April 1861, and Lincoln’s subsequent call for 75,000 volunteers to defend the nation’s capital, Ellsworth raised the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment from New York City.
After Union forces occupied Alexandria, Ellsworth and his troop as well as President Lincoln and his cabinet had reportedly observed through field glasses from an elevated spot in Washington the Confederate flag flying above the roof of the Marshall House Inn and Ellsworth volunteered to remove it.
Ellsworth and seven other soldiers went to roof of the Marshall House inn to remove it. After removing the flag and upon coming down the stairs, Private Francis Edwin Brownell (July 18, 1840 – March 15, 1894), leading the way and Ellsworth following with the flag, a man, James W. Jackson, leveled a double-barreled shotgun at Ellsworth’s chest and fired. The other barrel was discharged at Brownell which missed.
Ellsworth was shot dead by the shooter, the inn’s proprietor, James W. Jackson, who was then shot dead by Brownell. Private Brownell, who retained a piece of the flag, was later awarded a Medal of Honor for his actions. After Ellsworth’s death on May 24, 1861, he was taken to the White House where he would lay in state in the East Room.
Ellsworth’s body was then taken to the City Hall in New York City, where thousands of Union supporters came to see the first man to fall for the Union cause. Ellsworth was then buried in his hometown of Mechanicville, in the Hudson View Cemetery. The phrase, “Remember Ellsworth”, became a rallying cry and call to arms for the Union Army.
Today, most of the flag is held by the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center in Saratoga Springs, which also has Ellsworth’s uniform with an apparent bullet hole. Another fragment is held by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
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