Shootout at Jackson City

A true story of an eager Deputy Sheriff who went to do the right thing but got himself and his posse into the largest shootout in Alexandria County history. By the 1890’s Alexandria County Virginia across the Potomac River from Washington DC was a place of some promise and much vice. Jackson City sat in the swamp area at the Virginia end of the famed “Long Bridge”. The area around it was known as Hell’s Bottom, a lawless place of gambling, illegal liquor and vice where saloon owners and gam...