Excerpt from Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland: Described in a Hand-Book for the Tourist Over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railway Probably no survivor of the Army of the Potomac visits Alexandria without inquiring for the Marshall House. It became famous in his tory in the early days of the late war, and has so remained ever since. It was in this building that one of the bloodiest tragedies of the war was enacted, in which two men met their death in a terrible en counter. The spring of 1861 found Alexandria, as well as many other South ern cities, in a ferment of excitement. The place was held by a few companies of Confederate soldiers, who flaunted the stars and bars literally within sight of the Capitol and under the guns of the Federal steamer Pawnee, ' which was anchored off the city at the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.