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PRINT OF COL ELLSWORTH, 1ST UNION OFFICER KILLED IN CIVIL WAR Portrait of Col EE Ellsworth of the New York Fire Zouaves, litho on paper, with faux autograph, in lemon gold molded frame, matted under glass, OS: 17" x 12", SS: 12" x 7 1/2". Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth was the first Union officer to die in the Civil War. A close friend of Pres. Abraham Lincoln, Ellsworth died while removing a highly visible Confederate flag from the roof of a hotel overlooking the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia, across from Washington, DC. May 24, 1861 (aged 24).