Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Gentlemans Vice Patent Drawing

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Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The Gentlemans Vice Patent DrawingDeath 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