As Colonel Benjamin Kelley’s Federals pursued the Confederates through Philippi, he was shot in the upper right chest by Colonel George A. Porterfield’s quartermaster, and although a surgeon declared it a mortal wound, Kelley recovered. In a show of respect, his men awarded him a horse they bought locally; he named the horse “Philippi” and rode it through most of the war. Eighteen-year-old Confederate James E. Hanger, a member of the Churchville Cavalry, was struck in the left leg by a cannonball as he tried to get his horse from Garrett Johnson’s stable near the covered bridge. Within hours, Doctor James D. Robison of the 16th Ohio Volunteers amputated Hanger’s leg about seven inches below the hip, the first amputation of the war. Hanger later founded the J.E. Hanger Company, which today as Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc., is the nation’s oldest and largest manufacturer of artificial limbs. Captain Fauntleroy P. Dangerfield of Hot Springs, Virginia, came to Philippi to drill Confederate recruits. During the retreat, he was wounded in the left knee by a bullet. Carried to Beverly by wagon, his leg was amputated the next day by surgeon Doctor John T. Huff of Monterey, Virginia. It was the first amputation of the war by a Confederate surgeon.