HARDY COUNTY WEST VA LOST CACHE

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Confederate Captain John Hanson "Hanse" McNeill led 200 Confed-
erate guerrillas in McNeill's Rangers (McNeill's Virginia Cavalry Com-
pany or Partisan Rangers) in attacks behind Union lines in Virginia and
West Virginia. Captain Daniel R. McNeill was said to have buried a
treasure at his home, Willow Hall. It is likely that Daniel R. McNeill was
a relative of John Hanson McNeill. Captain McNeill and his company
of guerrillas surrendered about May 8, 1865 to Union forces.
 

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