NY State Military Museum highlights artifacts of 1st Union officer killed in Civil War

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — It was 150 years ago this week that a infantryman from upstate New York became a initial Union officer to be killed in a Civil War.

Col. Elmer Ellsworth was gunned down on May 24, 1861, and his genocide was a inhabitant prodigy in a initial months of a war.

Ellsworth was killed a same day he led a New York battalion ordain into Alexandria, Va., on a orders of his friend, President Abraham Lincoln. While stealing a Confederate dwindle from a roof of a Marshall House, a hotel’s renter shot and killed Ellsworth before being fatally shot by one of Ellsworth’s men.

New York State Military Museum Director Michael Aikey (AYE’-kee) says Monday that a dwindle will go on arrangement during a state Capitol in July.

Ellsworth is buried in Mechanicville, his Albany-area hometown. Ellsworth’s bullet-torn uniform is on arrangement during a Saratoga Springs museum.