Turner Ashby "Was the Most Picturesque Horseman Seen in the Shenandoah Valley"
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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A rising star in the Confederate cavalry, Col. Turner Ashby suffered death at the end of Stonewall Jackson's successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign in 1862. One his fellow Virginians, Maj. Henry Kyd Douglas, remembered Ashby's life and service in his memoirs.
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