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The Marshall House was an inn that stood at 480 King Street (near the southeast corner of King Street and South Pitt Street) in Alexandria, Virginia. At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, the house was the site of the killing of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth during the Union Army 's takeover of Alexandria.
The Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia – the place where Elmer Ellsworth was shot to death by Jackson. (photo 1861) James William Jackson (March 6, 1823 – May 24, 1861) was an ardent secessionist and the proprietor of the Marshall House, an inn located in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, at the beginning of the American Civil War.
Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth (April 11, 1837 – May 24, 1861) was a United States Army officer and law clerk who was the first conspicuous casualty [2] and the first Union officer to die [3] in the American Civil War. [4] [5] He was killed while removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the Marshall House inn in Alexandria, Virginia. [6] [7]
The plaque commemorated James W. Jackson, who had flown a large Confederate flag on the roof of the Marshall House, an inn that Jackson had owned at the onset of the Civil War. The Marshall House stood at that time on the property that Marriott later acquired. [49]
The building was occupied by the Union Army in 1864 and 1865 during the American Civil War. [3] Ralph Meldrim was proprietor of the Marshall House in 1857, and he erected a 12-foot-high, 120-foot in length iron veranda on the front of the second floor of the property. [3]
Debruhl-Marshall House, Columbia, South Carolina, NRHP-listed; Caleb H. Marshall House, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, listed on the NRHP in Caledonia County, Vermont; Marshall House (Alexandria, Virginia), the site of the first significant battle death of the American Civil War; Marshall-Rucker-Smith House, Charlottesville, Virginia, NRHP-listed
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The Marshall House attained its fame for the role it played in the events leading to the British surrender following the Battles of Saratoga fought during September–October, 1777. Traveling with the British army was the Baroness Frederika Riedesel , the young wife of Major General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel , commander of the German soldiers ...