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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Turner Ashby
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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TURNER ASHBY (1824-1862), American cavalry leader in the Confederate army, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1824. Before the Civil War he was a planter in Markham, Fauquier county, and a local politician. When hostilities began he raised a regiment of cavalry, which he led with conspicuous success in the Valley campaigns of 1861-62, under Joseph Johnston and Stonewall Jackson. He was promoted a brigadier-general shortly before his death, which took place in a cavalry skirmish at Harrisonburg, Va., on the 6th of June 1862. By his early death the Confederates lost one of the best cavalry officers in their service.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Turner Ashby'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/turner-ashby.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Turner Ashby'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/turner-ashby.html. 1910.
