Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lieut.-Col. Ellis” in chapter 118, page 401 of Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4.:

... troops in front broke and fled through the lines of the Fifteenth and Forty-sixth Illinois, without firing a shot, and left the Fifteenth exposed to a terrible fire, which they gallantly returned. Lieut.-Col. Ellis and Major Goddard were killed here early in the action, and the regiment fell back. The same misfortune, from the yielding of the front line, threw the Forty-sixth Illinois into confusion, and alth...
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