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Turner Ashby Private David Bowman of Company I, 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment. The 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment also known as Ashby's Cavalry [1] was a Confederate cavalry regiment raised in the spring of 1861 by Colonel Angus William McDonald [2] The regiment was composed primarily of men from the counties of the Shenandoah Valley as well as from the counties of Fauquier and Loudoun.
Turner Ashby Jr. (October 23, 1828 – June 6, 1862) was a Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War. In his youth, he organized an informal cavalry company known as the Mountain Rangers, which became part of the 7th Virginia Cavalry ("Ashby's Cavalry").
1852 - In Markham, Turner Ashby organizes the "Mountain Rangers" to police railroad workers who troubled farmers. [2] The Rangers later become Co. A. 7th Va. Cavalry; October 21, 1855 - Anthony Burns, a runaway and fugitive slave, is excommunicated from the Jesus Christ Church at Union in Fauquier. Burns is captured and returned only to be ...
Cavalry Brigade BG George H. Steuart. 2nd Virginia Cavalry - Col Thomas T. Munford; 6th Virginia Cavalry - Col Thomas Flournoy; 7th Virginia Cavalry - Col Turner Ashby; Chew's (Va.) Battery - Cpt R. Preston Chew
23rd Virginia Infantry - Ltc Alexander G. Taliaferro; 37th Virginia Infantry - Ltc Robert P. Carson; Danville Artillery, Virginia Artillery - Lt Albert C. Lanier; Cavalry Col Turner Ashby. 7th Virginia Cavalry - Col Turner Ashby; Chew's Virginia Battery - Cpt R. Preston Chew
A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names had been removed, a reversal that ...
On June 6, 1862, a company of the 1st New Jersey Cavalry Regiment attacked Confederate scouts stationed in Harrisonburg. Chasing the enemy to Good’s Farm on the outskirts of town, the company was fired upon by infantry of the 58th Virginia concealed behind two stone walls on either side of the road.
The Cavalry Corps battle flag. The Cavalry Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia was an organized unit of cavalry in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Starting out as a brigade in late 1861, becoming a division in 1862 and finally a Corps in 1863; it served in the Eastern Theater until the ANV's surrender in April 1865.