Ellsworth's Avengers

Item Information

• Description
  1-page broadside with lyrics for song "Ellsworth's avengers" by A. L. Hudson, to the tune of air "Annie Lisle". 5 verses and chorus, with border. Published by Horace Partridge, Boston. Depicts death of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, leader of Zoave unit, originally from New York. An early fatality in the Civil War, Ellsworth was shot while cutting down a Confederate flag he'd offered to remove for President Lincoln after Virginia's secession in 1861.

• Item ID
  bdsma10768
• Source Collection
  Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
• Spatial Coverage
  United States
  Virginia
  New York
  District of Columbia
  Massachusetts
  Suffolk County (Mass.)
  Boston (Mass.)
• Language
  eng
• Title
  Ellsworth's Avengers
• Extent
  1 scan
• Date
  1860-1869
• Folder
  MA1
• Type
  Text
  broadsides
• Subject
  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  War
  Politics and government
  Music
  Military campaigns

• Copyright & Usage
  None