Ashland C. Gale, student 1861-1862

Ashland C. Gale, a Norfolk native, served in Captain Taylor's Company, Virginia Volunteers, known as the "Young Guards." Service is also recorded in the James City Light Artillery and the 4th Bn. Local Defense Infantry.  He was a private in Richardson's company of the James City Artillery when he was taken prisoner at the end of the war and released in June, 1865. After the war, Gale was a clerk and bookkeeper in family member's businesses through the 1890s. The 1900 census lists him as a patient at the Virginia Southwestern State Hospital, an asylum for the mentally ill.