This sketch of Hagerstown City Hall was made in the summer of 1863 by artist James Taylor. It was used by both sides for storage and treating their wounded as they alternately occupied the town over the war years. Hagerstown’s official symbol since the early days as Elizabethtown is the weathervane “Little Heiskell.” Donated in 1769 by a tinsmith named Heiskell, it is said to be the outline of a soldier of that period, and was pierced by a bullet from a Confederate sharpshooter sometime during the war. The one you see today is the second. The original, complete with hole, can be seen in the Jonathan Hager House Museum in Hagerstown City Park. The present City Hall
dates to 1941.