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Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, August 1862. [Scene from the American Civil War: shops including the Great Western Clothing House, Entwisle's City Bookstore, and a dry goods store. The Marshall House inn was the site of the killing of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth during the Union Army's takeover of Alexandria. Ellsworth, a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln, was shot while removing a Confederate flag from the roof]. Albumen print, pl. 1 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866).