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ELLSWORTH, Elmer Ephraim (1837-61), Colonel, Union martyr. Autograph document signed ("E.E. Ellsworth," with flourish), Matteson House, Chicago, 3 November 1856. 1 full page, 4to, docketed by Ellsworth on verso. Inserted in an elaborate blue morocco folding display case by Heinke-Penske Adam (for Ralph G. Newman) [With:] Sheet music: J.C. Beckel, "Ellsworth Funeral March," Boston: Ditson 1861. 5pp., 4to, cover with brightly colored lithograph by J.H. Boffard showing Col. Ellsworth in full zoave uniform, standing on a Confederate first national flag, military camps in the background.
THE FUTURE MARTYR DRAFTS AND WITNESSES A TEMPERANCE PLEDGE Ellsworth, who went on to command a celebrated zoave corps during the early days of the Civil War, and became the first Union officer to fall in hostilities, witnesses one C.H. Daniel's vow to forsake "spiritous liquors," at least for a week. The pledge is written in Ellsworth's most florid and official hand: "I...do hereby bind myself by every thing I hold sacred on Earth and most solemnly promise not to touch a drop of Spiritous Liquors of any description whatever except for medicinal purposes when recommended by some acknowledged Physician, for one week. So help me heaven..."
RARE. On Ellsworth and his celebrated martydom, see notes to the following lot.
THE FUTURE MARTYR DRAFTS AND WITNESSES A TEMPERANCE PLEDGE Ellsworth, who went on to command a celebrated zoave corps during the early days of the Civil War, and became the first Union officer to fall in hostilities, witnesses one C.H. Daniel's vow to forsake "spiritous liquors," at least for a week. The pledge is written in Ellsworth's most florid and official hand: "I...do hereby bind myself by every thing I hold sacred on Earth and most solemnly promise not to touch a drop of Spiritous Liquors of any description whatever except for medicinal purposes when recommended by some acknowledged Physician, for one week. So help me heaven..."
RARE. On Ellsworth and his celebrated martydom, see notes to the following lot.