Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind

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INDEX Alexandria, Va., 28 Alexandria Gazette, 46 Allegheny Mountains, 151, 211, 214 Ambler, Thomas, 185–7, 212 Anderson, Bill ‘‘Bloody,’’ 139 Ashby, Dora (Moncure), 27, 29, 42–3 Ashby, Dorothea (mother), 27, 29, 55, 178, 223; financial problems of, 40–3 Ashby, Elizabeth (Green), 29, 36, 40, 41, 42–3, 75, 76, 123 Ashby, Fannie (Moncure). See Moncure, Fannie Ashby, Frances Maria, 29, 42 Ashby, Jack, 28, 44 Ashby, James, 29, 42–3, 44, 74–6, 77, 78–9, 112 Ashby, John William, 54, 55 Ashby, Mary (Moncure), 27, 29, 37, 42–3, 76 Ashby, Richard, 15, 27, 29, 40, 42–3, 64–5, 91 n. 39, 112, 156, 166, 177, 221, 227; antebellum career, 73–80; fight near Kelly’s Island, 68–73, 80–5 Ashby, Thomas, 20–1, 24, 145 Ashby, Turner: ambition of, 85, 90–4, 107–8, 193–5, 204–10; and Angus McDonald, 87, 88; charisma of, 60–2, 95–100, 105–108, 170–1; as Christian soldier, 4, 13–5, 225; and Confederate warrior ideal, xvi–xvii, 172–4, 187–8, 201–10; courage of, 5, 63–4, 173; death of, 1–4, 10–6, 66–7, 200–21, 233; death relics of, 11, 12 n. 22, 15–6, 66; and family defense ideal, xvi–xvii, 71–2, 81, 83, 112–3, 156, 166–8, 172, 178–80; as farmer, 50; feminine qualities of, 18, 29–30, 37, 64–5; in fight at Kelly’s Is- 252 Index land, 68–73, 81–5; and horsemanship ideal, xvi–xvii, 18–20, 39, 61, 62, 63, 67, 172; image of (general), xiii, xvi– xvii, 12, 14–5, 18–9; independence of, 91–2, 94; intellect of, 17, 54; as living symbol, 19, 62, 175–6; and Lost Cause, 223–33; as merchant, 44–5, 49–50; mythic powers of, 2, 160, 162–3; and natural-man ideal, xvi–xvii, 17, 143, 145–9, 153, 172; newspaper attacks upon, 177–9; as partisan, 90, 132, 133–42; political career of, 49; resignation of, 189– 210; as slave master, 44, 50; suppresses railroad riot, 45–7; tactics of, 7, 9, 67; as tournament rider, 123–5; transformation of, 166–8; in Valley campaign, 188–9, 210–7; vengeance of, 71–2, 81, 155–68; as vigilante leader, 47–62; youth of, 27–30 Ashby, Turner (father), 27–9, 40 ‘‘Ashby Galop’’ (music), 2, 7 Ashby Memorial Association, 225 Ashby’s ‘‘Adventure at Winchester,’’ 2 n. 2 Ashby’s Gap, Va., 28, 230 Avirett, James Battle, 13, 27, 29, 51, 107, 145, 147, 155, 156, 158, 167, 211–2, 214, 225; describes Ashby, 15, 18, 30, 37, 64–5, 87; describes Kelly’s Island fight, 68–9, 72–3, 81–3, 85 Baltimore, 95, 100 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 69, 79, 89, 91, 95, 96, 100–1, 108, 135 Banks, Nathaniel P., 5, 188–9, 211, 213–6 Barry, Joseph, 60, 125, 153–4, 225 Baylor, George, 20, 24, 38, 65, 150, 161, 171, 174 Beauregard, P. G. T., xii Benjamin, Judah P., 105, 138, 191–3, 196, 197, 208. See also War Department (Confederate) Berkeley County, Va., 101, 102, 104, 151 Beverley, Jane, 39 Black Charger (horse), 64–5 black flag, 162, 164–5 Blackford, Launcelot Minor, 171 Black Horse cavalry (Warrenton troop), 56, 61, 96, 161–2, 164 ‘‘Black Horsemen.’’ See Black Horse cavalry Blackmore, Mr., 23 ‘‘Black’’ Republicans, 57, 161 Blue Ridge Mountains, 28, 56; and guerrilla war, 58, 127, 135 ‘‘Border Ranger’’ (poem), 163–4 border war, 86, 156; emotional impact of, 72–3, 83–4, 103–5, 112–3, 124–5, 157–8. See also guerrilla war; partisan war Boteler, Alexander Robinson, 97, 142, 180–1; and Ashby-Jackson controversy , 191, 198–203, 205, 206–10; as Ashby patron, 105–6, 107–8, 140–1, 194–6 Boteler, Helen ‘‘Tippie,’’ 159, 166, 180–1, 183 Bowen, Walter, 98 bowie knives, 81; as symbols, 163–5 Breckinridge, Lucy, 36 Brerwood, Mr., 159 Brock’s Gap, Va., 136 Brooks, Preston, xv Brown, John, 19, 77, 102, 124, 132, 161, 165; and Harpers Ferry raid, 56–61 Buck, Lucy Rebecca, xviii, 3–4, 13, 159, 160, 182, 187, 213 Index 253 Buckton Station, Va., 214 Bull Run, battle of (first), 88, 89, 96, 99, 162, 165 Butler, Lucy Wood, 10, 12–3 Caperton, Harriette, 77–8 Caruthers, William A., 150 cavalier image, 32–3. See also chivalry; knight ideal Charleston, S.C., 3, 64 Charles...