Union Capt. James A. Jarboe's Company I, 10th West Virginia Infantry, guarded the intersection of the Morgantown and Patterson Creek roads from a nearby blockhouse and also escorted supply trains traveling between Fort Mulligan at Petersburg and the depots at Burlington. Confederate forces periodically raided the Patterson Creek Valley to disrupt this route, and during the first week of September 1863 Jarboe's company clashed nearby with Capt. George W. Imboden's cavalry. Although Imboden reportedly shot and mortally wounded Jarboe, he survived and later took part in the last fights near Appomattox Court House, Virginia, in April 1865. On January 3, 1864, Confederate Gen. Thomas L. Rosser and 3,000 cavalrymen attacked a wagon train at Moorefield Junction near Lahmansville, captured about 100 wagons and 100 Union soldiers, and burned area blockhouses, including Jarboe's. The prisoners were sent to Richmond, Virginia, and late in February many were transferred to the prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia, where few survived. Among the 20 members of Company I sent there was Pvt. Ransom T. Powell of Eckhart Mines, Maryland, who had run away from home in 1862 at age 13 to join the army as a drummer. Camp commander Capt. Henry Wirz made Powell, known as Little Red Cap for his small size and red-crowned forage cap, his orderly. Powell helped get food to his comrades, survived captivity, returned home when exchanged in October 1864, and died in 1899 in Marietta, Ohio.