Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: The Life of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth by Meg Groeling. Cost is $6 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.

Synopsis:

Colonel Elmer Ellsworth was the first Union officer killed in the American Civil War. When it happened, on May 24, 1861, the entire North was aghast. Ellsworth was a celebrity and had just finished traveling with his famed and entertaining U. S. Zouave Cadets drill team. They had performed at West Point, in New York City, and for President Buchanan before returning home to Chicago. Ellsworth then joined his friend and law mentor Abraham Lincoln in his quest for the presidency. When Lincoln put out the call for troops after Fort Sumter was fired upon, Ellsworth responded. Within days he was able to organize over a…