The “McNeill’s Last Charge A68 Virginia historical marker” was erected south of Mount Jackson, Virginia by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
Text from the marker:
A68
McNeill’s Last Charge
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.
Location of the marker
The “McNeill’s Last Charge A68 Virginia historical marker” is on the west side of the Old Valley Pike (U.S. Highway 11) about 1.25 miles south of Mount Jackson, Virginia and about 280 yards south of the bridge over the North Fork Shenandoah River. There is a small gravel pull off on the west side of the highway at the marker. (38°43’42.0″N 78°38’42.5″W)