UNITED STATES: AE token (2.74g), 1859, Rulau-Va 103, Wright-667, Schenkman-1040 AC, VF-EF, capped bust of Liberty left with 13 stars around // MARSHALL / 1859 / HOUSE, 9 in date weak as usual. The Marshall House, located in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Alexandria, became famous in 1861. Col. Ephraim Elsworth was garrisoned in Alexandria. The owner of the Marshall House was a Southerner named James Jackson and raised the Confederate flag over the hotel. Ellsworth ordered Jackson to remove the flag, but he refused. Ellsworth and a man in his command, Pvt. Francis Brownell, then went to the roof of the hotel and pulled the flag down. As they were descending the stairs, Jackson shot and killed Ellsworth. Brownell then killed Jackson, an act which earned him the Medal of Honor (in 1877).
