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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
ecomes navigable for large vessels. They are connected with the opposite side of the river by a bridge of the Ohio Canal at Georgetown and the Long Bridge, a wooden structure situated in front of Washington. These hills were formerly a part of the District of Columbia, a Federal territory placed under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress, but all the right bank of the Potomac had been ceded back to Virginia. It was of great importance to occupy these heights and fortify them. On the 24th of May several regiments left Washington secretly, and took possession of the whole chain of hills from Georgetown to Alexandria. Only a few mounted Confederates were seen in the latter city. The population, which consisted entirely of secessionists, made but a feeble resistance; but Colonel Ellsworth, a young officer of great promise, was assassinated while in the act of hauling down the rebel flag from the top of a house, and the tragic death of this officer, the first news of the kind that