The Battle of Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church was fought on May 9, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.

[2][1] Union forces were only partially successful: they inflicted damage on the local railroad, but further advance was halted.

On May 9, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler made a thrust toward Petersburg and was met by Bushrod Johnson's Division at Swift Creek.

A premature Confederate attack at Arrowfield Church was driven back with heavy losses, but Union forces did not follow up.

In conjunction with the advance to Swift Creek, five Federal gunboats steamed up the Appomattox River to bombard Fort Clifton, while Edward W. Hincks's U.S.