Crossword-Solution: ELLSWORTH 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Colonel Ellsworth's Zouaves, on the evening of May 23, were sent with a considerable force to occupy the heights overlooking Washington and Alexandria, on the banks of the Potomac, opposite the national capital.

Four years later the memorable message "What hath God wrought!" was sent by young Miss Ellsworth over his circuits, and incredulous Washington was advised by wire of the action of the Democratic Convention in Baltimore in nominating Polk.

Ellsworth, Commissioner of Patents, came up with a beaming countenance, and holding out her hand, said-- 'Professor, I have come to congratulate you.' 'Congratulate me!' replied Morse; 'on what?' 'Why,' she exclaimed,' on the passage of your Bill by the Senate!' It had been voted without debate at the very close of the session.

Among his most beautiful letters are those he wrote to sorrowing parents who had lost their sons in battle; and when his personal friend, young Ellsworth, one of the first and most gallant to fall, was killed at Alexandria, the President directed that his body be brought to the White House, where his funeral was held in the great East Room.

From discussing the quality of a certain building on Chestnut Street which was then being erected, and which Ellsworth pronounced atrocious, they had fallen to discussing art in general, or the lack of it, in America.