8th Ohio Cavalry Regiment

Jackson, Virginia, a strategic crossing of the Valley Turnpike over the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.

He was taken to a nearby house on Rude's Hill, where he was left for a period of time until his identity was subsequently discovered by Union General Sheridan's troops.

He was secreted away from Rude's Hill by a small band of Confederates when the Federals had temporarily left, thinking he was too incapacitated to move and thus did not need a guard.

McNeill was moved to Harrisonburg in Confederate hands, where he died on November 10 Most of the regiment was captured by the Confederates during an engagement at Beverly, West Virginia, on January 11, 1865, and those men were mustered out as prisoners of war in June 1865 and returned to Ohio.

The remainder (4 companies that were on detached duty in Clarksburg, West Virginia) mustered out at the end of July.