McNeill's Rangers in Moorefield plantation forced him to retreat to

forced him to retreat to Winchester

the Federals would control the Mississippi River an split the Confederacy

This event is set on May 25

over a million horses perished in service to their respective causes

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

McNeill's Rangers in Moorefield plantation forced him to retreat toWestern 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.