After Union forces occupied New Bern in March 1862, Confederate Maj. John N. Whitford established a camp at Haddocks Crossroads, where the main roads from Greenville to New Bern and to Kinston met. Whitford’s Battalion of Partisan Rangers, later designated the 67th North Carolina Infantry with Whitford as colonel, stationed two companies there to monitor and block Federal troops approaching from New Bern. Union forces attacked the camp at least twice. On November 25, 1863, Union Capt. George W. Graham led an expedition from New Bern with detachments from the 1st North Carolina Volunteers (U.S.), the 12th New York Cavalry, and the 23rd New York Artillery Battery. According to Union Gen. John J. Peck, the Federals surrounded two companies of Whitford’s battalion, about 75 men, captured 52 prisoners, killed a lieutenant and 4 men, and lost 1 killed and 3 wounded while also taking arms, horses, mules, wagons, the camp, and commissary stores. The camp was eventually reestablished, and Graham raided it again on February 18, 1865, while en route to Greenville with elements of the 1st North Carolina Volunteers and the 12th New York Cavalry. There they captured two Confederate officers and at least fifteen men of the 8th Georgia Infantry, and at Greenville they destroyed supplies and captured Maj. William E. de Mille, grandfather of motion-picture director Cecil B. DeMille. In his report on the November 1863 expedition, Peck noted that a Union officer praised Mr. Horn, who acted as a guide and was probably Pvt. Jacob H. Horn of the 1st North Carolina Volunteers, whose brother joined the Confederate army.