Colonel Elmer Ellsworth was the first Union officer to die in the American Civil War. No new biography of his life has been published since 1960--so I am writing one.
Monday, August 1, 2011
off for a day or so
I will be out and about for a bit, so no writing--here or on the book. I finished the chapter where EE dies. I just stopped it with EE and JJ lying on the floor, bleeding out. I will pick up the thread again in the chapter on dying in the 19th century, which was a MUCH bigger deal than it is now. There were "funeral planners" back then, not wedding planners. In the part of society where there was a lot of money, there were sort of "celebrity funerals" and everyone tried to outdo each other. Geez!
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