[3][4] Some 25,000 Confederate Army soldiers under the command of General James Longstreet arrived at the church in December 1863 to spend the winter, after the Battle of Bean's Station.

[3][4][7] Worship services resumed after the war ended, but church members could not reconcile their political differences.

Confederate and Union supporters sat on different sides of the church, separated by empty pews.

[1] The church building and its cemetery are maintained by members of a local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

[4] In 2011, a pair of local teenagers vandalized the church and its cemetery, breaking windows and defacing gravestones.