HISTORY AT STONY CREEKIN 1864, SUPPLIES FOR LEE'S ARMY WERE
CARTED FROM THE WELDON RAILROAD
HERE TO PETERSBURG. HERE THE
UNION CAVALRYMAN, WILSON, RETURNING FROM
HIS RAID TO BURKEVILLE, FOUGHT AN
ACTION WITH LEE'S CALVARY, JUNE 28-29,
1864. THE PLACE WAS RAIDED BY THE
UNION CAVALRYMAN, GREGG, ON DECEM-
BER 1, 1864.
Wilson is General James Harrison Wilson and Gregg is Brigadier General David McMurtrie Gregg.
The Weldon Railroad from Wilmington was an important lifeline for the Confederate Army during the siege of Petersburg and the railroad was thus an important Union target.