Brig. Gen. Turner Ashby, C.S.A.

Brig. Gen. Turner Ashby, C.S.A. is a Virginia historical marker in Fauquier County, dedicated 1997.

Fauquier County · dedicated 1997 · John Marshall Highway between Old Markham and Leeds Manor Roads

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Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson's cavalry commander during the brilliant 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, was born on 23 Oct. 1828 just north at Rose Bank. From 1853 to 1858, Ashby operated a mercantile business in a large frame building just to the south, at the foot of the hill on which stands his home, Wolf's Crag. An unsuccessful candidate for the House of Delegates in 1858, he left his home in April 1861 to serve the Confederacy as captain of his Mountain Rangers. Ashby was killed in action on 6 June 1862 near Harrisonburg, Virginia, and is buried in Winchester.

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