McNeill's Rangers in Moorefield plantation had longed for the embrace

had longed for the embrace of his wife Adelaide

This event is set on May 25

the other officers attending Grant politely withdrew just out of earshot in a semicircle around the two great commanders

On May 23rd

over a million horses perished in service to their respective causes

McNeill's Rangers in Moorefield plantation had longed for the embraceWestern Virginia, October 1863 The exciting heroic tales of Southern cavalry have captured the imagination of Americans for generations. The moments once remembered of superbly mounted horses charging forth in line of battle with spurs pressed to chestnut anks, sabres flashing, and guns blazing have aged into legend. One of those cavalry units was an independent partisan command organized by Captain John Hanson McNeill in Moorefield Western Virginia.