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Civil War symbol's star rises

Scrap of cloth said to be part of flag Union hero paid for with life

by: LEIGH HORNBECK Staff writer 

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Mechanicville native Col. Elmer Ellsworth was killed in the early days of the Civil War as he hauled away a Confederate flag that had disrupted Abraham Lincoln's view from the White House.

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