Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Sergeant Frank E. Brownell, of the Ellsworth Zouaves, stabbed James W. Jackson, the proprietor of the Marshall House hotel at Alexandria, VA with this bayonet. Jackson had mortally wounded Col. E.E. Ellsworth, United States Volunteers, for hauling down the Confederate flag from the hotel roof.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated person
- Brownell, Frank E.
- Ellsworth, Elmer E.
- maker
- unknown
- date made
- ca 1855
- Credit Line
- Frank E. Brownell
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/4 in x 26 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 9.525 cm x 67.31 cm x 3.175 cm
- Object Name
- bayonet
- bayonet, saber
- Other Terms
- bayonet; Edged Weapons; Army; Sword
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