LIST OF MAJOR AND BRIGADIER-GENERALS OF VOLUNTEERS, &c.—(Continued.) NAME AND RANK. Giles A. Smith. Thomas W. Eagan. STATION. Savannah, Ga... Commanding 1st brigade 3d division 2d army corps. Commanding 2d brigade cavalry division, dep't of Arkansas. Steamer Niagara, Miss. river En route to Morganzia, La. (On duty in department of Gulf.) In the field, Ga.. Army of Potomac.. In the field, Tenn.. In the field, Va.... Washington, D. C.... Army of Potomac.. New York city. Army of Potomac.. In the field, Tenn.. Washington, D. C.. Army of Potomac.. Commanding 1st cavalry division, military division of Mississippi. Commanding 2d brigade 2d division 6th army corps. Commanding 5th cavalry division, military division of Miss. Member of general court-martial. (Severely wounded.) Serving in dep't of the Cumberland. [army corps. (Wounded.) Libby prison, Richmond, Va Prisoner of war. Army of Potomac.. Washington, D. C,... Army of Potomac.. New Orleans, La........... Commanding 2d brigade 3d division 2d army corps. Commanding 1st brigade 1st division 5th army corps. [porary leave of absence.) Commanding 1st brigade 4th division 5th army corps. (On tem Commanding division 22d army corps. Commanding 1st division 25th army corps. Severely wounded. Commanding 2d brigade 1st division 24th army corps. Commanding post. Commanding 1st infantry division, department of W. Virginia. Commanding 1st brigade district of the frontier. Commanding 3d brigade 2d division 2d army corps. Under orders to department of Cumberland. Com'dg 2d brigade 1st cavalry division middle military division. On duty in 1st cavalry division middle military division. Commanding 2d brigade 1st division 6th army corps. Com'dg 1st brigade 1st inf. div., departinent of West Virginia. Commanding cavalry brigade, department of Gulf. Commanding 3d div. U. S. colored troops, department of Gulf. RECAPITULATION. HOW EMPLOYED. Maj. Generals. Brig. Generals. Aggregate. Acting Rear Admiral. + Reprimanded and suspended for three years from May 3, 1864. Two years of his suspension was remitted by the President, December 27, 1864. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 1861. May 24.-EPHRAIM ELMER ELLSWORTH, a colonel of volunteers and the introducer of the Zouave drill and organization into the United States, born at Mechanicsville, Saratogo Co., New York, April 23, 1837, killed at Alexandria, Virginia, May 24, 1861. The financial misfortunes which overtook his father during Elmer's early childhood, prevented him from obtaining the object of his boyish ambition, a cadetship at West Point; but, passionately fond of study, he acquired a good English education. After brief engagements in mercantile employment in Troy and New York, he went to Chicago, and though not yet of age, commenced business for himself as a patent solicitor, and soon attained success and a handsome income; but through the fraud, of one whom he had trusted was despoiled of his hard earnings. Instead of giving way to despondency, he turned his attention to the study of law, supporting himself meanwhile by copying law papers at night. But while thus rapidly familiarizing himself with the science of law, his predilection for the military profession was very strong; and having attained a thorough familiarity with the French chasseur d'Afrique or Zouave drill and organization, he resolved to form a Zouave corps in Chicago, with such modifications as he deemed desirable to better adapt it to this country and the genius of the people. The corps which he organized and of which he became the commander, was a remarkable one; the strictest abstinence from spirituous liquors and tobacco was enforced, and the drill was exceed ingly severe in its gymnastic requirements. They had been organized less than a year when their extraordinary performances won them at the State Agricultural Fair a stand of colors, and in July, 1860, with their gallant commander at their head and bearing their prize colors, they visited the Eastern cities, and challenged competition in their military discipline and practice, and won golden opinions everywhere. On his return to Chicago he organized a Zouave regiment, which he offered to the governor for the defence of the State, as if in premonition of the coming struggle. During the autumn Ellsworth entered heartily into the political campaign, advocating the election of Mr. Lincoln. After the election he accompanied the President elect to Washington, where he received a lieutenant's commission preparatory to his entrance into the War Department, and had already matured in his own mind a reorganization of the militia of the country. The breaking out of the war changed his plans. At the proclamation of the President on the 15th of April, he hastened to New York, organized a Zouave regiment of 1,200 men from the Fire Department, and in three weeks marched at their head through Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington. He drilled his regiment assiduously, and, more than any other man could have done, tamed and controlled those restless and ungovernable spirits. On the 23d of May his regiment was ordered to Alexandria, which they reached early in the morning of the 24th. Seeing a secession flag flying over a hotel (the Marshall House), he entered and demanded of a man whom he met there, whose flag it was; the man, who was really the proprietor of the house, professed not to know, saying he was only a lodger; and Ellsworth, with two companions, ascended to the roof and took it down, wrapping it around his body. As he descended he said, "This is my trophy." “And you are mine," said Jackson, the proprietor, pouring the contents of his shot gun full into the breast of the colonel, and instantly falling himself from a musket ball through the head and a deadly bayonet thrust from one of Ellsworth's Zouaves, Francis E. Brownell. Jackson was captain of an artillery company in his own county. He was known by his neighbors as a man who united a dauntless courage with generous impulses. A week before his death a Union man from Washington had been seized in the streets of Alexandria, and a crowd threatened to shoot or hang him. He rescued him, and threatened to kill any man who |