1918 Print Drawing Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth - ORIGINAL HISTORIC WIS1 XAOA5 The Guest of Honor (1925)

The Guest of Honor (1925)

51 x 33 cm

Keywords specific to this image: Great War

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This 89+ year old Item is rated Very Fine

1918 Print Drawing Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth - ORIGINAL HISTORIC WIS1 XAOA5 The Guest of Honor (1925)This is an original 1918 halftone print featuring a drawing made by Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth. The Drawing was reproduced from the original in the Wisconsin Historical Library. Elmer E. Ellsworth was a lawyer and soldier, best known as the first conspicuous casualty of the American Civil War. In 1859, Ellsworth became engaged to Carrie Spafford, daughter of a local industrialist and city leader. In 1860, he went to Springfield, Illinois, to work