Appearance of Confederate Veteran in Charlottesville causes a stir in 1916

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Appearance of Confederate Veteran in Charlottesville causes a stir in 1916


125 Years of Progress takes you inside The Daily Progress' archives every day in celebration of our 125 years serving Charlottesville and the rest of Central Virginia.






An unusual Letter to the Editor that ran Feb. 25, 1916, pointed our attention to a strange story that had played out in the previous days. On Feb. 21, a Daily Progress reporter shared the story of John Ashby, a 74-year-old Confederate Veteran who had “stumbled into police headquarters last evening and asked for a night’s lodging.”

Given a jail cell to sleep in, as it was late on Sunday night, the destitute man was reported to have said: “’I entered the army when the war broke out, and served four years. I was with Jackson until Chancellorsville,’ his lip quivered, ‘then with Lee. I was at Petersburg at the time of the surrender.’”

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