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| Saturday May 25, 1861 |
Funeral services were held in the East Room of the White House
for Colonel Elmer Ellsworth. The President and Mrs. Lincoln were
present. The President wrote the parents of young Ellsworth, "So
much of promised usefulness to one's country, ad of bright hopes
for one's self and friends, have rarely been so suddenly dashed,
as in his fall." Death in war was yet new--soon it would receive
less attention.