Turner Ashby, Stonewall Jackson’s cavalry commander during the brilliant 1862 Shenandoah Valley campaign, was born on 23 Oct. 1828 at Rose Bank just north of here. From 1853 to 1858, he operated a mercantile business in a large frame building just south, at the foot of the hill on which stands his home, Wolf’s Crag. After an unsuccessful run for the House of Delegates in 1858, he left his home in April 1861 to serve the Confederacy as a captain of his Mountain Rangers. He was killed in action on 6 June 1862 near Harrisonburg, Virginia, and is buried in Winchester.