Gen. Turner Ashby

C. S. A.

was killed on

this spot,

June 6, 1862,

gallantly leading

a charge.

Marker is on Turner Ashby Lane.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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

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 ...