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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

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