Ellsworth Hero of the Hour.,
The deed sent a wave, of grief and
indignation over the north. Ellsworth
became the hero of the hour. I sup
pose more babies were named for him
than for any other national idol, ex
cept four or five of our greatest presi
dents and Henry Clay. Ellsworth was
given an imposing funeral in New
York city, and a- regiment was made
up in his honor, composed of one man
from each town in the Empire State.
At the time of his death Colonel Ells
worth was twenty-four years old. He
had aspired to West Point,, but poverty
prevented. Managing to procure an
education, however,- he studied law
but, military, ardor getting the best of
him, he organized a company of
zouaves in Chicago and trained them
to such efficiency that they gained
prizes throughout the land. Ellsworth
was an ardent supporter of Lincoln
and accompanied him east. At this
time he planned a reorganization of
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the militia. When the. first call for
troops came Ellsworth hastened to
New York and organized his famous
zouaves from the New York firemen.
In the excited state of the northern
mind: the romantic character of -Ells
worth, his youth,/his galSmt deed and
the manner .of his death caught the
•popular''imagination.^- P.erhapa we are
alt sentimentalists at bottom, and this
tragedy, like the firing on the flag at
-.Sumter^and,the massacre of Massa
chusetts troops in Baltimore on the an
niversary of tha, battle- of -Lexington,
appealed to this later# sentiment
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