On wooded Chestnut Ridge on the evening of Friday, June 6, 1862, Pennsylvania Bucktails under Col. Kane were defeated in a hard fight by the 58th Va. under Col. Letcher and Gen. Turner Ashby and the 1st Md. under Col. Bradley Johnson. Gen. Ashby was killed, and Col. Kane was captured. Stonewall Jackson said of Gen. Ashby, “I never knew his superior, his daring was proverbial.”