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On September 11, 1863, a band of 300 Confederates surprised the 260 Union soldiers under Major Stevens, encamped on Cemetery Hill at Moorefield, West Virginia. At 3:00 a.m. twenty-five Union soldiers of Private Slusher's company were traveling the Lost River Road when they encountered the returning rebels who carried the captured camp supplies and 146 prisoners. The small unit of cavalrymen engaged the Confederates and quickly killed twenty, before the overwhelming size of the rebel force turned the time of battle. Private Slusher's friend, William Hagner, had been wounded early in the battle, taken prisoner by the Confederates, and placed in a hospital wagon. As the surviving troopers attacked the Confederates, Hager threw up his hands and yelled for help. "To see him in such a predicament was too much for me," Private Slusher later recalled. "I at once crossed the river. My aim was to rescue him at all hazards, and I reached the vehicle under a heavy fire. In a hand-to-hand fight close by the ambulance, I was wounded and captured and had to share the fate of my comrade in Libby Prison." For his heroic efforts on behalf of a comrade, Private Slusher received the Medal of Honor. |
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