A History of the Forty-Fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865 #232510

At the district school in this little village Ellsworth received his first knowledge of books, rules Of discipline and his fellows. He is said to have been a favorite with his master, manly, a leader amongst and loved by his school mates (whom he used to drill with sticks), quick to learn, apt Of memory and young as he was, he had a love of such books as told of war and the lives and deeds of men great in war.