LARKIN "SHEPHERD" ASHLEY (JORDAN1) was born 1837 in NC.
Larkin S. Ashley served in Company B of the 13th Kentucky Cavalry (CSA) under
the command of Colonel. Benjamin Everage Caudill, the son of John Adams CAUDILL
and Rachel CORNETT. He and 119 others were captured at the Battle of Gladeville,
VA, July 7, 1863.
According to Colonel Caudill's diary, the enlisted men captured at Gladeville
were taken to Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio, then to Camp Douglas near Chicago,
Illinois.
Larkin was not heard from again after his capture.
Census data for Larkin Ashley
1840 Wilkes County Census- Page
55
Jordan Ashley
Males <5: 1 5-10: 1 10-15: 2 15-20:
1 30-40: 1
Females 5-10: 2 10-15: 1 30-40:1
1850 Perry County Census- 2nd District; dwellings
165-7
Jordan
Ashley 45 Carpeter
Barbara 45
Jesse 16
Sheppard 13
Hilliard 9
William Smith 26
Martha 18
1860 Perry County Census- Dwellings
625-6
Ashley,
Jordan 56
Barbara 55
Shepherd 23
Hillard J. 18
My Ancestors and the Thirteenth Kentucky
Cavalry
Camp Douglas-
photo at the Chicago Historical Society
Camp Douglas
Confederate Mound at Oak Woods
Cemetery
Civil War
Prisons in
Illinois
Civil War
Concentration Camps- essay by Mark Weber in Journal of Historical
Review
Col. Benjamin
Caudill Camp # 1629, SCV, Hazard, Ky