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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
.interesting particulars.death of Capt. Richard Ashby. We copy the following interesting particulars of the skirmish which took place at Kelley's Island, near Romney, on Saturday, the 29th ult., from the Winchester Republican.--It is with much regret that we find in the postscript attached, the announcement of the death of tha on as strictly correct: On Thursday morning last, Colonel Turner Astiby left the camp at Col. George Washington's, in Hampshire county, five miles north of Romney, on a scouting expedition, with 11 men under his command, and proceeded is the direction of Patterson's Creek depot. Near the same hour, Captain Dick Ashby left , and every tongue will bid him welcome. Thus ended the great right at Kelley's Island, where the two Ashbys, with seventeen men, completely routed seventy U. S. Dragoons. P. S.--Since going to press, we have received a dispatch from Romney, announcing the death of Capt. Richard Ashby. He died at 12 o'clock yesterday.