On June 26, 1861, part of Confederate Lt. Col. Turner Ashby's 7th Virginia Cavalry clashed with a detachment of Company A, 11th Indiana Infantry, on Kelley's Island while both units were on patrol. Earlier that day, the Federals had fought and mortally wounded Ashby's brother, Capt. Richard Ashby, then occupied Kelley's Island as they planned to commandeer a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train or canal boat to carry their wounded back to Cumberland. In a report written the next day, Col. Lew Wallace of the 11th Indiana Infantry said that Corp. David B. Hay's 13-man mounted patrol first fought 41 cavalrymen under Capt. Richard Ashby, killing 8 and wounding Ashby, and that 75 of Turner Ashby's men later attacked on the island, where Hay's men killed 23; Wallace added that the skirmish sounded like fiction but was not exaggerated. Later Confederate accounts instead said that Turner Ashby led ten men in a mounted charge against the dismounted Federals, who fired from behind drift logs and sycamores, and when horses were wounded or fell over the logs, Ashby's men continued on foot. In those accounts, Dr. O'Fanton and Osbourne Foley were killed, John Ladd was wounded, and Ashby's men killed three of the Indianans. Hearing a distant train whistle and fearing Union reinforcements might cut off his retreat, Ashby ordered a withdrawal, and his men returned that night to recover their dead and found the wounded Capt. Ashby nearby; he died nine days later.