Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA side streets pooling into dusk

side streets pooling into dusk

when aging Union men gathered under G

its courses hewn from Aquia quarries and stacked by hands that still remembered the Revolution

the Scottish bard installed in Washington Park by the bequest of Mary McPherson

rendering the everyday hardness of homestead and trail with the unsentimental eye of a witness who knew the West was a ledger

Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA side streets pooling into duskDeath of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 a martyr's lithograph rushed to print within weeks of the killing, fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the foot of the Marshall House stairs as the Union's first celebrated casualty. The secession banner is still in his hand, the war scarcely a month old. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of