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William Anderson Ellis

I lived from 1837-1864. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

William Anderson Ellis, an American poet, was born in 1837. He married Susannah Fewget in North Carolina, in 1856. He enlisted in Company I of the 35th regiment of the Confederate army in the Civil War. He was wounded at the battle of Bermuda Hundred in May of 1864 and died in a Virginia hospital three days later.

Ellis wrote two acrostics which reveal the thoughts of a young man who, being an educator, would have been exempt from military service, but chose to take up arms for the cause.

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  • Farewell
    Farewell, dear, young friends;
    though parting is painful,
    15 lines
  • William Anderson Ellis
    When young I began my own fortune to seek
    In the morning of life so fresh and so gay
    20 lines

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