On March 17, 1863, Captain John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed "The Gray Ghost", raided a Union outpost at Herndon Station in Northern Virginia.

[1] The raid on Herndon Station was the furthest north into Union lines Mosby and his men ventured.

This promotion was given shortly after Mosby's raid of the Fairfax Courthouse, only a few miles south of Herndon Station, on March 5, 1863.

[4] Amidst the chaos local resident Kitty "Kitchen" Hanna was preparing lunch at her husband Nathaniel "Nat" Hanna's request for four union officers: Captain Robert Schofield, Major William Wells, Lieutenant Watson, and Lieutenant Perley C. J. Cheney.

Seeing Mosby's men approaching Schofield and Wells ran out of the Hanna house and were quickly captured by the raiders.

After the war Major Wells and Lieutenant Schofield returned to the Hanna house to retrieve their guns, which they had hidden in the walls that day.

The site where the mill used to stand is now the home of Green Lizard Cycling, a locally run coffee shop that also sells and rents out bikes.