In a message dated 5/27/2006 10:03:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: In the morning reports for the 15th WV Infantry (Union), dated December 29, 1862, I found the entry: "A report that Ashby's cavalry was going to attack us." Confederate cavalry general Turner Ashby died in June 1862. Would the scribe have been talking about his regiment? Would that have been the 7th VA Cavalry? Joy: You are correct that the 7th VA Cavalry went by the moniker of "Ashby's Cavalry." The Laurel Brigade was initially called "Ashby's Cavalry,"and was made up of the 7th Virginia,11th Virginia,12th Virginia & 35th Virginia Cavalry regiments, as well as Chew's Battery. Respectfully, Mike Peters [email protected]