The Memoirs of General Turner Ashby and His Compeers, Annotated Edition

This is a thorough biography of Turner Ashby, who achieved immortality with his gallant ultimate sacrifice in the early part of the War Between the State's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Ashby was the beau ideal of the Confederacy, and really its first hero -- the one who set the standard for the Southern warrior-knight defending home and hearth. The Chaplain of the 7th Virginia Cavalry, James B. Avirett, who knew Ashby intimately, gives us an exciting look at life in what came to be...
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This is a thorough biography of Turner Ashby, who achieved immortality with his gallant ultimate sacrifice in the early part of the War Between the State's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Ashby was the beau ideal of the Confederacy, and really its first hero -- the one who set the standard for the Southern warrior-knight defending home and hearth. The Chaplain of the 7th Virginia Cavalry, James B. Avirett, who knew Ashby intimately, gives us an exciting look at life in what came to be known as the "Laurel Brigade." Originally published in 1867, it is a book for the "arm-chair historian" and academic alike. While many reprints have been done, this one has been re-typeset by a real person, and not by Optical Character Recognition software. There are unobtrusive explanations of Latin phrases and other archaic terms to aid the reader, but these have been kept to a minimum. This edition contains a bonus chapter courtesy of the Reverend Doctor Rondel Rumburg, former Chaplain-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and presently scholar in residence at the Society for Biblical and Southern Studies in Appomattox County, Virginia. This is a book that will be read for pure pleasure and that will be referenced again and again. It belongs on the shelf of every Southern partisan.