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This is an original period image from the Library of Congress, the National Archives and other quality sources restored and tinted by the internationally known color artist and author of "Restoring and Tinting Vintage Images", David Richardson. This is an exclusive listing of his work on ebay.

Each image is taken from a high resolution negative and then cleaned of blemishes, damage, scratches, and whatever the decades have caused. Then the image is carefully brought back to life by adding color to the black and white image. By using these techniques the hands of time are turned back and for the first time you can see the images in color as they might have been on the day they were taken.

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Marshall House Site of Colonel Ellsworth death Alexandria VA

Alexandria, Virginia was one of the first Southern cities to fall under Union control after secession. Due to its proximity to Washington, the city was immediately captured. This did not, however, sway Southern sympathies in the city. James Jackson owned the Marshall House (a small hotel) which sat approximately two miles from the White House. To show his support for the Southern cause he raised a Confederate flag above his hotel.

The flag and the mast were so large that they could be seen from the White House. Lincoln asked his friend Colonel Ellsworth, of the 11th New York Zouaves, to have the flag removed. Ellsworth quickly took his regiment across the Potomac River and marched unopposed to the Marshall House. Jackson had sworn that the flag would only by removed, “over my dead body”. After Ellsworth cut down the flag, Jackson confronted him on the stairway and killed him with a shotgun. The sound of two more shots rang out almost immediately - Jackson firing from the other barrel and missing and Corporal Brownell, of Ellsworth's unit, firing and killing Jackson.

Both Ellsworth and Jackson became Martyrs for their cause. Lincoln had Ellsworth's body returned to the White House, where he lay in state in the East Room prior to his burial in New York. For his part, Brownell was eventually given the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The Marshall House became a tourist location with many artifacts removed as souvenirs. Torn down in the 1950’s, some of the original artifacts were preserved and are now on display at the Alexandria Archaeology Museum. Today hotel Monaco sits on the site of the Marshall House. A plaque on the corner remembers Jackson as a Martyr defending his property. However, it doesn't make any mention of Jackson killing Colonel Ellsworth.