Sale 3039: The "ERIVAN" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History Part IV

"Remember! Ellsworth!!!," beautiful multicolored Magnus-type design, franked with 3c Dull red (26) tied by indistinct Washington, D.C. cds, addressed to Phillipsville Pa, envelope opened at the top and with some scattered tone spots, Fine and attractive (Walcott 400; Weiss FP-EE-36)rnrnElmer Ellsworth (1837-61) was a US Army officer and law clerk who was the first conspicuous casualty and the first Union officer to die in the Civil War. He was killed while removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the Marshall House inn in Alexandria, Virginia. He was a close personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who as President later eulogized him as "the greatest little man I ever met". After his death, Ellsworth's body lay in state at the White House.rn Union Patriotic Covers