Francis E. Brownell, a Union soldier in Col Ellsworth’s “Fire Zouaves” (1861-1863)

            Francis E. Brownell participated in one of the first deadly encounters between North and South in the American Civil War.  James W. Jackson was the proprietor of the Marshall House in Alexandria, Virginia.  It was the site where Colonel Elmer Ellsworth and Innkeeper Jackson met untimely deaths over an incident involving a Confederate flag on May 24, 1861.  

James W. Jackson was 37 years old and an ardent secessionist.  His expression of "grim, stern and obstinate determination was stamped emphatically on every feature," as his biographer would later say of the man.  Jackson didn't take kindly to having the Confederate flag torn down from the roof of his hotel and he shot and killed the Union Army Officer who tore it down, Col. Ellsworth.  Jackson in turn was shot and bayoneted by Private Francis E. Brownell, one of Ellsworth's men.  Thus were born celebrated martyrs for the North and the South.  Cries of "Remember Ellsworth!" recruited thousands for the Union and "Remember Jackson!" recruited thousands for the Confederacy.

[Note: The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, generally estimated at 620,000, is approximately equal to the total of American fatalities in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, combined.  I hear a lot of loose talk today about another civil war.  Be careful what you wish for]

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Taken on: June 20, 2023

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