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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum catalog has 22 entries for Ellsworth materials (letters, sheet music, papers, and publications), 4 of which are listed below:
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Abraham Lincoln Presidental Library & Museum catalog
- Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim).
Papers, 1855-1861. [97 items]
- Ingraham, Charles Anson.
Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, first hero of the civil war.
- Robinson, Luther Emerson.
Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth; first martyr of the Civil War (Springfield, Ill., Philips Bros., Print., 1924).
The Lincoln Institute has prepared an illustrated biography of Ellsworth presented at the following site:
Mr. Lincoln and Friends (organization).
Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery, part of the National Portrait Gallery's website, includes a portrait of E.E. Ellsworth:
Brady's portrait of E.E. Ellsworth.
The Smithsonian Institutes's Civil War website features several pages on Ellsworth:
CivilWar@Smithsonian / First blood collection / Ellsworth.
"Mr. Lincoln's White House," a Gilder-Lehrman Foundation project, has a page on Ellsworth:
Mr. Lincoln's White House / Elmer Ellsworth (1837-1861).
The Chicago Historical Society hosts an online project "Wet with blood" on Lincoln's assassination and the memory of the Civil War and its relics (including those related to Ellsworth held at the Libby Prison War Museum):
Libby Prison War Museum / Ellsworth.
New York State Library has materials on Ellsworth and his NY Fire Zouaves in their collection of broadsides. See subject and title indices at:
NYSL Broadside ballads collection subject index and
NYSL Broadside ballads collection title index.
The Ellsworth Papers form part of Brown University's John Hay Collection and are related to the McClellan Lincoln Collection at Brown as well. Many additional related items are held at the John Hay Library and the Rockefeller Library including:
- Ellsworth, E. E.
Manual of arms for light infantry, adapted to the rifled musket, with or without the priming attachment. Chicago: P.T. Sherlock, 1861. (Call number: UD320 E5 1861 Hay Military)
- Ellsworth, E. E.
Ellsworth's last letter. Boston: Prentiss & Deland, ca. 1861 (Call number: B1529 MA Hay Broadsides)
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Zouave drill book, as used by Col. Ellsworth's Zouaves. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1861 (Call number: UD320 E54 1861 Hay Star)
The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at the Hay Library has several pieces of sheet music related to Ellsworth's death in battle:
- Baumbach, Adolph.
Ellsworth Zouaves' and National Lancers' greeting grand march (Chicago: Root & Cady, 1860)
- Beckel, J. C.
Col. Ellsworth's funeral march (Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1861)
- Jacobsen, Otto F. and L. Both Hendriksen.
Our laddie's dead Jem (New York: William Hall & Son, 1861)
- Tobey, A. Birt.
Sadly the bells toll the death of the hero. (Chicago: A. Judson Higgins, 1861)
- Warren, George.
A requiem in memory of Ellsworth. (New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1861)
- Webster, J. P.
Brave men behold your fallen chief. (Chicago: H. M. Higgins, 1861)
- Webster, J. P.
Brave men behold your fallen chief. (Chicago: H. M. Higgins, 1862)
- Winner, Sep.
Col. Ellsworth's funeral march (Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1861)
Related portraits and scenes in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection include:
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Colonel Ellsworth of the Fire Zouaves (wood-engraving from Harper's Weekly, May 11, 1861)
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E.E. Ellsworth, late Col. of the New York Fire Zouaves (lithograph after J.E. Baker, 1861)
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E.E. Ellsworth, Late Col. of the New York Fire Zouaves (color lithograph by Prang after D.C. Fabronius; Boston, Prang, 1861)
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Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth (of the New-York Zouaves) (color lithograph by F.P. Whiting; New York, Whiting, Phelps & Watson, etc., 1861)
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Death of Colonel Ellsworth after hauling down the rebel flag, at the taking of Alexandria, VA, May 24th, 1861 (color lithograph, Currier & Ives, 1861)
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