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Samuel K. (Samuel Kimball) Ellis
1839–1918
A Civil War veteran from Rockville, Connecticut, he helped preserve the story of the 25th Connecticut Volunteers through a detailed regimental history that blends official record with personal memory.
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The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion : history, reminiscences, description of battle of Irish Bend, carrying of pay roll, roster
by George P. (George Perkins) Bissell, Samuel K. (Samuel Kimball) Ellis, Henry Hill Goodell, Thomas McManus
About the author
Born in 1839 and known as Samuel Kimball Ellis, he is best remembered as one of the contributors to The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion. Project Gutenberg lists him under that full name and dates, and the book itself presents him alongside the other contributors to this history of the regiment.
Sources connected with the regiment identify him as a private in Company G of the 25th Connecticut Volunteers and later as a past commander and chaplain of Burpee Post No. 71 of the Grand Army of the Republic in Rockville, Connecticut. That background helps explain the tone of his writing: practical, commemorative, and focused on keeping fellow soldiers' experiences from being forgotten.
Ellis died in 1918. Though not a widely known literary figure, his work remains valuable as a firsthand-minded contribution to Civil War memory and local Connecticut history.