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Would there be anyone out there that might have additional information as to why captain Napoleon Altop's home guards shot and killed Levi Ashcraft (age 60yrs) on River Run, Harrison County Va. (now Taylor County WV.) April 8 1862?
"On April 8th, 1862, six members of the Fairmont Home Guards known as the “Bloody Six” led by Captain Pole Altop shot a neighbor of Rev. James Clelland by the name of Ashcraft. There was no obvious reason for the shooting of Ashcraft aside from the report that the six men were reported drunk and out to terrorize the area. Meredith’s column reported “J. Lee Janes supplies the name of the man killed by the soldiers with whom Judge McDougall was associated with up Valley Falls Way. He says it was Levi Ashcraft and that his grandfather Thomas H. Janes heard the shot that killed him."
Any information would be appreciated. Dixie
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