Flag made a martyr and a hero

The New York State Military Museum has created a video that shows some of the meticulous work conducted to conserve a flag at the center of a deadly encounter in the opening weeks of the Civil War. The flag is the large Confederate banner James Jackson flew from the top of his Marshall House hotel in Alexandria, Va., in May 1861. Jackson fatally shot Col. Elmer Ellsworth of Mechanicville, N.Y., after Ellsworth removed the flag from the hotel roof. One of Ellsworth's soldiers then killed Jackson. • See the video