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James W. Jackson

  

 

 

Jackson’s shotgun

The innkeeper of the Marshall House, James W. Jackson, used this English-made double-barrel shotgun to kill Colonel Elmer Ellsworth as he descended the stairs of the hotel with the Confederate flag he had just removed from the flagpole over the roof.


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