During the Battle of Honey Hill on Nov. 30, 1864, as Union troops under Brig. John P. Hatch marched toward Grahamville to cut the nearby Charleston-Savannah rail line, they encountered Col. Charles J. Colcock's smaller Confederate force posted in a redoubt about 1 mile north of here. Confederate commander Charles J. Colock ordered a nearby grass field set ablaze, delaying the approaching Federal troops and giving the Confederates time to gather additional forces. When the Confederate position could not be taken, and because of the Union troops' lack of ammunition and the strength of the Confederate defenses, the Union attack was repelled and the troops retreated.