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nesaw Ridge and other fields might be added to exemplify the Fifth Company's mode of fighting, but the above instances are deemed sufficient.

The Washington Artillery always found pleasure in according praise and doing honor to its gallant adversaries, and on many battle- fields it stood in admiration of their deeds and daring. Its survivors, while denying the correctness of the challenge and duel story, want no better evidence of the gallantry and stubborn fighting qualities of the Chicago Light Artillery, Company A, than the roll of its casual- ties at Shiloh four killed and twenty-six wounded. Their admira- tion is won by any adversary that contests a field, either against them or others, to the extent of such a loss.

J. A. CHALARON,

Senior Surviving Officer, Fifth Company, Battalion Washington Artillery, of New Orleans.

[From the Philadelphia Weekly Times, July 23, 1892.]

HOW ASHBY WAS KILLED.

A Correspondent Reviews the Fighting before the Battle of Cross Keys.

To the Editor of The Times :

The following is an extract from a telegraphic dispatch dated Salem, N. J., and published in your issue of June 27:

" Frederick Trullender, proprietor of the machine works of this city, died to-day after a long illness. He was a veteran of the late war, being a member of Company E, First New Jersey Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. The deceased had always main- tained that it was he who shot Colonel Ashby, of the famous Con- federate Black Horse Cavalry, in a skirmish preceding the battle at Cross Keys, Virginia, in 1862. The deceased was on picket duty and shot at a rebel officer, but he did not know it was Colonel Ashby until the next day, when our forces received news that he had been shot and killed. Trullender' s story is well authenticated, being vouched for by many members of the First New Jersey Cavalry."