{"id":107300,"date":"2021-05-24T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107300"},"modified":"2021-05-23T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T00:24:52","slug":"the-murder-of-colonel-ellsworth-at-the-marshall-house-alexandria-va-may-24th-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-murder-of-colonel-ellsworth-at-the-marshall-house-alexandria-va-may-24th-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murder of Colonel Ellsworth at the Marshall House, Alexandria, Va., May 24th, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/27707976645\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107301 size-full\" title=\"The Murder of Colonel Ellsworth at the Marshall House, Alexandria, Va., May 24th, 1861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Murder-of-Colonel-Ellsworth-at-the-Marshall-House-Alexandria-Va.-May-24th-1861-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The Murder of Colonel Ellsworth at the Marshall House, Alexandria, Va., May 24th, 1861\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2001\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Murder-of-Colonel-Ellsworth-at-the-Marshall-House-Alexandria-Va.-May-24th-1861-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Murder-of-Colonel-Ellsworth-at-the-Marshall-House-Alexandria-Va.-May-24th-1861-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Murder-of-Colonel-Ellsworth-at-the-Marshall-House-Alexandria-Va.-May-24th-1861-1024x800.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Murder-of-Colonel-Ellsworth-at-the-Marshall-House-Alexandria-Va.-May-24th-1861-768x600.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Murder-of-Colonel-Ellsworth-at-the-Marshall-House-Alexandria-Va.-May-24th-1861-1536x1200.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Murder-of-Colonel-Ellsworth-at-the-Marshall-House-Alexandria-Va.-May-24th-1861-2048x1601.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a>(from Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated History of the Civil War&#8230;, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Colonel Ellsworth was passing the Marshall House in Alexandria, Va., when he saw a Confederate flag waving above it. On the spur of the moment he entered the hotel, and ascending to the roof with two or three friends, cut the halyards and took possession of the flag. As he descended the stairs be was fired at by James W. Jackson, proprietor of the hotel. Colonel Ellsworth fell to the ground mortally wounded.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated History of the Civil War&#8230;, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) &#8220;Colonel Ellsworth was passing the Marshall House in Alexandria, Va., when he saw a Confederate flag waving above it. On the spur of the moment he entered the hotel, and ascending to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}