Watch chain made from Marshall House flag lanyard
date: label: date made
content: post-1861
label: Associated Date
content: May 24, 1861
name: label: Associated Name
content: Ellsworth, Elmer E.
label: Associated Name
content: Brownell, Frank E.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Watch chain made from the lanyard of the Confederate flag flown over the Marshall House hotel in Alexandria, Virginia. Proprietor James Jackson had been flying a large Confederate national flag over the Marshall House for several weeks before Virginia's vote for secession on May 23, 1861. On the following day, Colonel Elmer Ellsworth and several members of the 11th New York Volunteers forcibly removed the flag, which was visible from some parts of Washington, D. C. Ellsworth was shot and killed by Jackson as he descended with the flag, and Jackson was killed in turn by Union soldier Frank Brownell. After the incident, the Marshall House flag accompanied Ellsworth's body home to New York, and someone used the flag's lanyard to create this metallic thread and cloth chain with metal toggle clasp.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: Subject
content: Civil War memorialization
label: Subject
content: Flags
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.6969
label: catalog number
content: 6969
label: accession number
content: 30411
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chain
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 2 in x 1/4 in; 31.75 cm x 5.08 cm x .635 cm