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Alexandria innkeeper James Jackson killed Col. Elmer Ellsworth, commanding officer of the 11th New York Fire Zouaves, on May 24, 1861. Waud sketched Ellsworth’s funeral service in the East Room of the White House. Pencil and Chinese white on brown paper.

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