Colonel Ellsworth's Coat

Leslie's Incidents of the Civil War in America, 1862 (PDF)
Source: Internet Archive

THE COAT WORN BY COLONEL ELLSWORTH WHEN HE RECEIVED HIS DEATH WOUND AT THE HANDS OF THE MURDERER JACKSON.

Coat Worn by Colonel Ellsworth. -- The manner and form of this lamented officer's death will be held in remembrance by the people of the United States, and everything connected therewith treasured up as the memento of a truly loyal and courageous soldier. The engraving given above shows the spot where the ball entered the Colonel’s breast, and tells how dreadfully accurate was the aim of the assassin Jackson. In other countries such a relics would be preserved with almost national jealousy, proving as it would that defenders of a nation's power is never “forgotten by a free and independent people”.