Elmer E. Ellsworth
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Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth was a United States Army officer and law clerk who was the first conspicuous casualty and the first Union officer to die in the American Civil War. He was killed while removing a Confederate flag from the roof of the Marshall House inn in Alexandria, Virginia.
Col. Elmer Ellsworth in 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Portrait of Elmer Ellsworth by unknown artist after Mathew Brady photograph (2011)
Last letter written by Elmer Ellsworth (dated May 23, 1861)
The Marshall house where Col Ellsworth was shot
Alexandria, Virginia
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Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of downtown Washington, D.C. Alexandria is the third largest "principal city" of the Washington metropolitan area which is part of the larger Washington-Baltimore combined statistical area.
George Washington Masonic National Memorial in 2015 with Washington, D.C., and Arlington in the distance
An 1863 aerial view view of Alexandria from the Potomac River with Fort Ellsworth visible on the hill in the center background
Child laborers working at a glass factory in Alexandria in 1911
A Confederate memorial on George Washington Memorial Parkway, c. 1920