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TURNER ASHBY (1824-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURNER ASHBY (1824-1862)  ,
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American cavalry leader in the Confederate army, was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1824 . Before the
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Civil War he was a planter in Markham, Fauquier county, and a
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local politician . When hostilities began he raised a regiment of cavalry, which he led with conspicuous success in the Valley
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campaigns of 1861-62, under Joseph Johnston and Stonewall Jackson . He was promoted a brigadier-general shortly before his
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death, which took place in a cavalry skirmish at Harrisonburg, Va., on the 6th of
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June 1862 . By his early death the Confederates lost one of the best cavalry
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officers in their service . ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, a market-
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town in the Bosworth
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parliamentary division of Leicestershire, England; 118 m . N.W. by N. from
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London by the Midland railway, on the Leicester-Burton branch . Pop. of urban
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district (1901) 4726 . The church of St
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Helen is a
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fine Perpendicular
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building, restored and enlarged (188o); it contains monuments of the Huntingdon
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family, and an old
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finger-pillory for the punishment of misbehaviour in church . The Ivanhoe
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baths, erected in 1826, are frequented for their saline waters, which, as containing bromine, are found useful in scrofulous and rheumatic complaints . The springs are at Moira, 3 M. west . There is a Queen Eleanor
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cross commemorating the countess of
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Loudoun, by
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Sir Gilbert Scott .

To the

south of the town are the extensive remains of Ashby Castle . There are extensive
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coal-mines in the neighbouring district, as at Moira, whence the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal runs south to the Coventry canal . At the time of the Domesday survey Ashby-de-la-Zouch formed
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part of the estates of
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Hugh de Grentmaisnel . Soon after it was held by Robert Beaumeis, from whom it passed by
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female descent to the family of ;a Zouch, whence it derived the adjunct to its name, having been hitherto known as Ashby or Essebi . The earliest record of a grant of market rights is in 1219, when Roger la Zouch obtained a grant of a weekly market and a two days'
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fair at the feast of St Helen, in consideration of a fine of one palfrey . In the 15th century the
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manor was held by James Butler,
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earl of
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Ormond, after whose attainder it was granted in 1461 to Lord Hastings, who in 1474 obtained royal licence to empark 3000 acres and to build and fortify a castle . At this castle Mary queen of Scots was detained in 1569 under the custody of the earls of Huntingdon and Shrews-bury . During the Civil War Colonel Henry Hastings fortified and held it for the king, and it was visited by Charles in 1645 . In 1648, at the close of the war, it was dismantled by order of parliament . It plays a
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great part in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe . In the 18th century Ashby was celebrated as one of the best markets for horses in England, and had besides prosperous factories for woollen and cotton stockings and for hats . See Victoria County History—Leicestershire;
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History of Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 1852) .

A-SHE-HO (Manch . Alchuku), a town of

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Manchuria,
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China, 125 M . N.E. of
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Kirin, and 3o in . S. of the Sungari . It is governed by a
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mandarin of the second class . Pop. about 6o,000 .

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