General Turner Ashby, the Centaur of the South: A Military Sketch. Introduction

by J. William Jones. by Clarence Thomas

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First edition

Winchester, VA: Printed by the Eddy Press, 1907. First edition. 8vo. xii, 211 pp. Frontispiece portrait from a painting of Ashby in military dress astride his horse. Ashby 1828-1862 , a planter in northern Virginia untrained in military matters, quickly showed his mettle in the early months of the war, and by late winter 1862 commanded all of the cavalry serving Stonewall Jackson, keying his victories in the Shenandoah Valley that spring. He was killed in a

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