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Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 3: Who Shot Major Ellis?
This is part three of a three-part series. Part one. Part two. For decades after William Ellis’s death, his story concluded for all but his mother. Later that month, August 1864, the already widowed Catharine Ellis began the process of … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Medical, Monuments, Newspapers
Tagged 16th Mississippi Infantry, 49th New York Infantry, 95th Pennsylvania Infantry, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Bloody Angle, G. Norton Galloway, John G. Darrah, monuments, Pensions, ramrod, Richard T. Owen, Spotsylvania, Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Thomas T. Roche, Wiley Sword, William Ellis
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Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 2: Mysterious Death and Elaborate Funeral
This is part two of a three-part series. Part one can be found here. Major William Ellis returned to the Army of the Potomac near Petersburg in mid-June. He knowingly cut short his recovery from a gruesome wound received from … Continue reading
Struck by a Fired Ramrod, Part 1: Delayed Mortal Wounding at Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle
“This has been a Sabbath to me,” confessed Surgeon George T. Stevens to his wife, Harriet, in a letter written Thursday evening, August 4, 1864. “No day since the campaign commenced last May has seemed like Sabbath before, but this … Continue reading
