Chew's Battery, Virginia Horse Artillery
Historical Notes:Raised to support Turner Ashby's 7th Virginia Cavalry, the Ashby Battery was attached to Captain John Pelham's Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion in September 1862 and remained in the organization until the end of the war. Chew became the commander of the entire battalion in 1865.
Formed by special order of the Confederate Government on November 11, 1861 at Flowing Spring, VA., the battery was commanded from the start by Captain Chew, a native of Loudoun County who grew up in Charlestown, Va. It was armed at the beginning with a 3-inch Ordnance Rifle, a 12-pounder bronze smoothbore howitzer and an imported 3.1 inch Blakely Rifle.
- Union General Pleasonton's Chief of Artillery regarding Chew's Battery at the battle of Brandy Station, as related by George Neese in a letter to Chew after the war.
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