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Ellsworth's Avengers: History of the 44th New York Infantry (Shaun C. Grenan - UA) investigation and the Phantom Battalion atby Shaun C. Grenan On the 24th of May, 1861, at Alexandria, Virginia, Elmer Ellsworth, the Colonel of the 1st New York Fire Zouave regiment was assassinated by a Confederate innkeeper and militia officer. The outcry among the people of the North was loud, fierce, and instantaneous. Elmer Ellsworth was not only a nation wide military hero, celebrity, and a close friend and confidant of the Lincoln Family, but he was the ideal soldier of the Victorian