Sellers fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg and had to leave the battlefield due to a serious injury.

Although not in command, Sellers personally rushed to the front to organize movement of the Union lines which allowed effective fire into the Alabama Brigade.

[2] After the war he became a Veteran Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

He died on September 20, 1908, and was interred at Mount Vernon Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Citation: "Voluntarily led the regiment under a withering fire to a position from which the enemy was repulsed.