Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Ewell na Georgetown, District of Columbia. A zụlitere ya na Prince William County, Virginia, site na mgbe ọ dị afọ 3, na ala dị nso na Manassas nke a maara dị ka "Stony Lonesome". Ọ bụ nwa nwoke nke atọ nke Dr. Thomas na Elizabeth Stoddert Ewell; nwa nwa Benjamin Stoddert, onye mbụ US Secretary of the Navy; nwa nwa nke Revolutionary War Colonel Jesse Ewell; na nwanne Benjamin Stoddert Ewell. Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na United States Military Academy na 1840, nke iri na atọ na klas ya nke ụmụ akwụkwọ 42. Ndị enyi ya na-akpọ ya "Old Bald Head" ma ọ bụ "Baldy". A họpụtara ya onye ọrụ nke abụọ na 1st U.S. Dragoons ma bulie ya n'ọkwa onye ọrụ nke mbụ na 1845. Site na 1843 ruo 1845 o soro Philip St. George Cooke na Stephen Watts Kearny na-eje ozi na-esochi Santa Fe na Oregon Trails. N'agha Mexico na America, na-eje ozi n'okpuru Winfield Scott, a mara ya ma bulie ya n'ọkwa onye isi maka obi ike ya na Contreras na
Churubusco. Na Contreras, ya na onye injinia Captain Robert E. Lee, onye ga-abụ ọchịagha ya, mere nnyocha abalị.