Asa H Townley
The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 10 October 1862, page 3
NEWPORT NEWS
WHEREABOUTS OF UNION PRISONERS-A letter was received in this city
yesterday from Asa H Townley, the Surveyor of Campbell County, written at
Georgetown, Kentucky, where he is held by the rebels as a hostage for the return
of Lewis C Norman, of Boone County, now a prisoner at Johnson's Island.
Mr. Townley, it will be remembered was captured several weeks ago in the upper end of this county, by the guerilla Jim Caldwell. he states in his letter that A H Bratton, of Bracken County, is also held at Georgetown as a hostage for C Ewell.