The Church was used as a hospital in 1863 and early 1864. mostly around the times after the Knoxville Campaign.

The church to this day still shows damage from horses tied up to it, were they chewed on the wood around the windows.

Soldiers who died here are beleived to be buried acroee the street from the church in what is now part of a families field next to the church. Known records of this church as a hospital are very unclear and are not found in any searches that I have done on the Confederate Dead in Charleston, Tn. as the church was close to the Railroad it became the perfect wayside type hospital for troops returning from Knoxville, Tn. to Cleveland and Chattanooga, Tn. Most of what was found here and the information taken from CSR's of soldiers who died here, list them as being to sick to make the trip to Chattanooga or Cleveland, Tn. and in need of attention for wounds now.

I do have some names of soldiers that died here and the stories of some of the locals of the old days that beleive that the soldiers were buried in an unmarked grave in Calhoun, Tn.