On March 1, 1864, ten days after the Confederate victory at Olustee, Union and Confederate forces fought a running skirmish along this road. The fighting began 2 to 3 miles west at 10 a.m. when Union forces advanced from Camp Mooney on Ellis Road to locate and test Confederate strength ahead of them. By noon, the outnumbered Union troops had fallen back to Cedar Creek to make a stand behind the creek's natural barrier, but the Confederate advance, though slowed by marshy ground, pressed into a short, sharp fight. After a half hour of combat and being flanked, the Union forces resumed their withdrawal. Confederate cavalry pursued until they were ambushed a couple of hundred yards east, where Capt. Winston Stephens of the 2nd Florida Cavalry was killed. Confederate infantry then arrived, and the fighting continued east along the road until Union troops reached the safety of their entrenchments at 3 Mile Run, also known as McCoys Creek. No Confederate attack on Jacksonville followed, and within two months both sides began transferring most of their forces to other theaters. This action produced the largest number of killed and wounded in any single day in Duval County during the War Between the States. Union forces engaged were the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, 40th Massachusetts Mounted Infantry, and one gun of Battery B, 1st U.S. Artillery, with losses of 1 killed, 4 wounded, and 5 captured. Confederate forces engaged were the 2nd Florida Cavalry, 5th Florida Cavalry, 27th Georgia Infantry, 11th South Carolina Infantry, and Chatham Artillery, with losses of 7 killed and 12 wounded.