Built in 1841 as a Methodist meeting house, Old Church was designed in the Greek Revival style with 14 rows of stark wooden pews and two separate front doors for men and women. During the Civil War, Old Church and several buildings on the Emory College campus served as hospitals for Confederate soldiers brought to Oxford, and some families stayed in town to remain near sick or wounded loved ones. Thirty-one Confederate soldiers who died in one of Oxford's hospitals are buried in a small cemetery on Emory's campus. Bishop James O. Andrew, one of five Methodist bishops in the country, lived on property adjacent to Old Church. Through marriage Andrew inherited a female slave named Kitty, whose simple cottage originally stood behind his residence. Although Andrew wished to free Kitty, Georgia law forbade it. In 1844, after heated debate, the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church suspended Bishop Andrew from office so long as he could not or would not free Kitty, and outraged Southern delegates drafted a Plan of Separation that led to the creation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The two regional factions reunited in 1939. One block north stood the President's House, circa 1836, once owned by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, uncle of Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet; A. B. Longstreet was president of Emory College from 1840 to 1848. A later president, Alexander Means, was a delegate to the Georgia secession convention in January 1861, and his home, Orna Villa, built in the 1820s, is the oldest house in Oxford. Oxford and nearby Covington were targeted during Union Brigadier General Kenner Garrard's cavalry raid on Friday, July 22, 1864, when his men destroyed Confederate stores and segments of the Georgia Railroad, captured horses and mules fit for army service, and disrupted care for patients at Emory College; some were captured while others hid in the woods. Confederate Sergeant Walter Clark, a former Emory student, recalled that the first sign of Garrard's arrival was a Federal cavalryman appearing outside an Emory College dining room used by patients, and another resident later wrote, "They came upon us with the suddenness of a whirlwind." Clark escaped capture, but many other Confederates did not. On Friday, November 18, 1864, Union Major General Jefferson C. Davis's 14th Corps, accompanied by Major General William T. Sherman, entered Covington. Skirmishing between Federal foragers and the Confederate cavalry of Terry's Texas Rangers occurred just outside Oxford, but the town was spared further major damage. After the Civil War, the college resumed using Old Church for services and community events, its two wings were added in 1880, and after Emory's main campus moved to Atlanta, Emory College was eventually renamed Oxford College of Emory University.