son of Daniel & Emma Dietrich
A number of boys in the 1860s were named Elmer Ellsworth for Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (1837-1861), a United States Army Officer and the first well known Union officer to die in the Civil War. He was also a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. The phrase, "Remember Ellsworth", became a rallying cry and call to arms for the Union Army. Composers wrote marches about him and memorial lithographs of him hung in people's home so it is no wonder that sons were named for him.
A number of boys in the 1860s were named Elmer Ellsworth for Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (1837-1861), a United States Army Officer and the first well known Union officer to die in the Civil War. He was also a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. The phrase, "Remember Ellsworth", became a rallying cry and call to arms for the Union Army. Composers wrote marches about him and memorial lithographs of him hung in people's home so it is no wonder that sons were named for him.
son of Daniel & Emma Dietrich
A number of boys in the 1860s were named Elmer Ellsworth for Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (1837-1861), a United States Army Officer and the first well known Union officer to die in the Civil War. He was also a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. The phrase, "Remember Ellsworth", became a rallying cry and call to arms for the Union Army. Composers wrote marches about him and memorial lithographs of him hung in people's home so it is no wonder that sons were named for him.
A number of boys in the 1860s were named Elmer Ellsworth for Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (1837-1861), a United States Army Officer and the first well known Union officer to die in the Civil War. He was also a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. The phrase, "Remember Ellsworth", became a rallying cry and call to arms for the Union Army. Composers wrote marches about him and memorial lithographs of him hung in people's home so it is no wonder that sons were named for him.
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