During the Civil War, the Union Army used this building in Lebanon, then owned by Christopher Beeler, as a commissary for subsistence, distributing all or part of the food for the Union garrison there. Union soldiers received daily rations of three-quarters of a pound of pork or bacon, one and one-quarter pounds of fresh or salt beef, and eighteen ounces of flour, along with potatoes, peas, beans or rice, coffee or tea, sugar, vinegar, salt, pepper, candles, and soap; on campaigns or marches they were issued corn meal and hard bread. According to the Official Records, when Gen. John Hunt Morgan attacked Lebanon on July 5, 1863, Col. Charles Hanson ordered all ordinance and commissary supplies destroyed, though whether that order was carried out or not, Morgan did capture military supplies in Lebanon. Morgan also threatened to burn the town if Hanson did not surrender, and by the time Hanson complied numerous buildings were on fire, including Christopher Beeler's house attached to the rear of the commissary building. After the Civil War, the building housed a grocery store, later a liquor store owned by J. H. Kearns, and in the 1930s Willie A. Deep bought it and opened the Sunnyside Saloon, which remained in operation until the 1980s.