The church’s interior rafters and outside walls still bear damage from the battle. Captain John Sloan of the 27th North Carolina Infantry recalled that the 11th passed in comparative quiet except for continuing enemy attacks, with daily fire on the Confederate works and efforts to batter down and destroy buildings in the village. He wrote that the enemy seemed to have special spite for the little brick church just behind his regiment, where surgeon Dr. Leander Gwin Hunt used it as a dispensary, and that after a shell came thundering through the gable, Hunt hastily vacated it. Sloan and Hunt both survived the war. During the Spotsylvania Campaign, Confederate forces dug more than six miles of earthworks. On May 11th, the 27th North Carolina of Cooke’s Brigade was near Christ Church, and the entrenchments protecting Spotsylvania Courthouse and the church included pointed logs known as abatis facing Union troops. Alfred Waud sketched the fighting on May 9th, depicting Christ Church on the left side of the drawing.