From the May 11, 2011 Sarasota (Fl) Herald Tribune "New York honoring first Union officer killed in the Civil War" by Chris Carola.
I originally started this in another year, in this blog, May20th and 23rd, 2011.
Union Col. Elmer Ellsworth and James Jackson died witching few feet of each other and within seconds. Ellsworth had just gone to the roof of Jackson's hotel and as he was coming down the stairs, Jackson killed him firing point blank into his chest with a shotgun Corporal Francis Brown then killed Jackson.
Lincoln, a close friend of Ellsworth's was devastated and had the young officer laid out in the White House. Ellsworth was buried back in Mechanicsville, NY and in the 1870s, a 40-foot obelisk was erected at his grave. Jackson's burial had much less fanfare. First buried in an unmarked grave in his family's cemetery in McLean, Virginia. He was later reinterred at a cemetery in Fairfax, Virginia.
The North vilified Jackson while he was a hero to the South. Jackson's hotel, the Marshall House was torn down in the 1950s. In the 1920s, the SCV put a plaque at the site.
A Nation Divided. --Old Secesh
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