Augusta County: "Roster of M'Neil's Rangers," by , September 24, 1905

Summary: The excerpts below are the introduction and conclusion to a reprinted roster of Confederate veterans. In the tone, we can see the affection for veterans that gripped so many southerners (and Americans) at the turn of the twentieth century.

The following is republished from the Staunton Spectator, by request, and published with pleasure, that it may be preserved along with other Confederate history that finds its way from "Our Confederate Column" to the scrap-books of the old boys who "fit" under "Marse Bob."

The Confederate Column takes it as it finds it in the Specatator, adding only the little story at the bottom.

We have been furnished by one of McNeil's men, Corporal D. M. Parsons, with a complete list of Captain John H. McNeil's Partisan Rangers, which next to Mosby's Battalion, was the most noted command of scouts that operated in Virginia during the war. Many of them will be recognized as gallant Augusta and Rockingham boys. There are 187 of them, all being Virginians except nineteen, who were from Maryland, and are marked Md. in the list.

[roster of names]

Among this company's many daring exploits was the raid of 1864 into Cumberland, Md., which was occupied by over ten thousand Federal troops, and their successful capture of Generals Crook and Kelly, whom they brought safely through the lines to Richmond.

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Bibliographic Information: Source copy consulted: Originally in Times-Dispatch, September 24, 1905