Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA the Scottish bard installed in

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

yacht races

side streets pooling into dusk

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

when aging Union men gathered under G

Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA the Scottish bard installed inDeath 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