Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

Kudos, Roger, you've got it!!!
I found the photo here:
http://alexandriava.gov/historic/fortwar...x?id=40044

...together with the following account of the incident by Benjamin Barton, an Alexandria watchmaker and silversmith who operated a shop at 324 King Street:
"...at daylight in the morning, without opposition - the Virginians leaving as the northern soldiers entered, - it would have been done without blood shed had not Col. Ellsworth too hastily taken down a Southern flag, flying over the Marshall House, south east corner of King and Pitt Streets,... James Jackson, the proprietor of the Hotel, met the Colonel on the stairway and in the altercation shot him dead, one of the soldiers accompanying Ellsworth, immediately shot Jackson dead, so two daring men fell at the onset: since then some few casualties have happened, yet our City remains quiet and we feel compairtively [sic] safe from harm: Sentries are placed in every part of town...
June 14, 1861
BENJAMIN BARTON"

The prize is best wishes for a good weekend!