Near Mount Jackson in Shenandoah County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

McNeill’s Last Charge

Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 25, 2006

1. McNeill’s Last Charge Marker

Inscription. In the predawn darkness of 3 Oct. 1864, Capt. John Hanson McNeill led thirty of his Partisan Rangers, including local resident Joseph I. Triplett, against a hundred-man detachment of the 8th Ohio Cavalry Regiment that was guarding the Meems Bottom bridge on the Valley Turnpike. The attack ended in fifteen minutes with most of the guard captured and McNeill, among the best-known Confederate partisan commanders, mortally wounded. Taken first to the Rev. Anders R. Rude’s house a mile south, McNeill was moved on 20 Oct. to Hill’s Hotel (Stoneleigh) in Harrisonburg, where he died on 10 Nov. His body was later reinterred in Moorefield, W. Va., his home.

Erected 1999 by the Department of Historic Resources. (Marker Number A-68.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1864.

Location. 38° 43.732′ N, 78° 38.7′ W. Marker is near Mount Jackson, Virginia, in Shenandoah County. It is on Old Valley Turnpike (U.S. 11) north of Moreland Gap Road,

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on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Mount Jackson VA 22842, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within one mile of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Veterans Memorial (approx. 0.3 miles away); Meem's Bottom Covered Bridge (approx. 0.8 miles away); a different marker also named Meem’s Bottom Covered Bridge (approx. 0.8 miles away); World War II Memorial (approx. one mile away); 6036 Main Street (approx. one mile away); 6028 Main Street (approx. 1.1 miles away); 6024 Main Street (approx. 1.1 miles away); 6013 Main Street (approx. 1.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map

Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 25, 2006

2. McNeill’s Last Charge Marker

In the distance is the Route 11 bridge over the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. This is not the location of the bridge discussed on the marker. Meems Bottom Bridge has its own marker (see Other Nearby Markers).

of all markers in Mount Jackson.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, September 25, 2006

3. McNeill’s Last Charge Marker

Moreland Gap through Massanutten Mountain can be seen in the distance.

Credits. This page was last revised on April 3, 2021. It was originally submitted on December 23, 2006. This page has been viewed 2,622 times since then and 49 times this year. Last updated on September 30, 2020, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on December 23, 2006, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio. • J. Makali Bruton was the editor who published this page.