Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21

by the power vested in the marshals by 1awt
o.S GIFTED IN 1rsas Of The
power in me vested by the Constitution and the
laws have thought At to call t forth and hereby
of the Union to the aggregate number OF 75,ooo
in order to suppress said combinations and to
The details for this object will be imme-
diately communicated to the state authorities
through the War Department.
1 appeal to all loyal citizens to favor. facili-
tate and aid this effort to maintain the honor,
Union and the perpetuity of popular govern
ment and to redress wrongs already long enough
endured.
Virginia seeded two days after the date
Robert E. Lee, then living in the Airing
ton mansion, to the command of the Vir-
ginia troops. Hostile troops were gather
ing in Virginia while troops, in response
ington. The militia of the District was
guarding the bridges. The high ridge
which one sees now across the Potomac
to the south and west commanded the
capital. The Union authorities determin-
ed that 1t must be seized. During the
night of May %. 1861, column of Union
troops crossed the Long bridge and hast
lily built breastworks. later enlarged and
called Fort Runyon. Most OF the remains
and site of this fort have been turned into
brick for the upbuilding of Washington
Another column crossed the Aqueduct
bridge and hastily constructed on the high
lands three earthworks which were called
Forts Corcoran. Bennett and Hagerty.
The two columns cooperating took pos
session of the heights Of Arlington. Early
in the morning of the oath another force
consisting of Ellsworths regiment of
zouaves went aboard river steamboats,
at Giesboro. landed at Alexandra. under
the guns of a warshfp. the Pawnee,
marched up King street and took posses
sion of the high land west Of the town
called Shutters Hill-the word Shutter
being SO variously spelled that the Ram
bier Is uncertain as to the correct form.
Some of the troops that had crossed the
Long bridge entered Alexandria by the
Washington-Alex toll road.
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The encounter between Jackson anG
Ellsworth has been told with minor vari-
atoms. Several years ago an old citi-
zen Of Alexandria. who had opportunities
for knowing good deal about the affair,
told the Rambler that as Col Ellsworth.
at the head Of his regiment. marched along
King street he saw a secession flag wav-
ing over the Marshall House. a hotel then
kept by Jackson. Ellsworth with four or
five of his men entered the hotel. pro-
ceeded to the roof, tore down the flag
and trampled it under foot. In coming
down the stairs the party met Jackson
armed with a double barrel shotgun. He
raised the gun to shoot the foremost zou-
ave, who knocked the gun aside. jack
son instantly turned the gun on Ellsworth.
the load Of one barrel entering his breast.
Ellsworth dropped dead upon the stair
way. Private Brownell. one Of the zou-
aves poured the contents Of his musket
into Jackson's head and 1t Is also said
that Jackson's body was then bayoneted
by the Infatuated men.
Soon after this affair various newspa-
pers published the following narrative as
related by the surgeon of the zouave regi-
ment, whose name is not given:
Immediately after landing the zouaves marched
IN into the center Of the town to the city flag
STAN, upon which they hoisted the American nag.