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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
Justice Marshalls former residence. A letter in the New York Times, from its army correspondent, gives the following description of these two places: At Markham, which is an insignificant little village of a couple of score of houses, there is nothing of interest to note. Passing through the town, however, I was remindede stood but some fifty yards from the road. I rode up to it — a small, poor log house, plastered without. I found it occupied by a man who had been innkeeper at Markham till the times ruined him, and who, finding the house vacant, took possession.--He informed me of a fact of which I was either never aware, or which I had forgotten — namely, that Ashby had been the local agent at Markham of the Manassas Gap Railroad, and had resided alone in the little house. Another historical reminiscence in connection with the place is also worth passing mention, perhaps. It was the former place of residence of Chief Justice Marshall, one of whose grandsons now lives