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After both battles, U.S. Army surgeons used the small frame house and outbuildings that stood on this property as a field hospital. Surgeon D.L. Magruder recalled that in about two hours Sudley Church was completely filled, forcing him to take possession of three other unoccupied buildings, which were cleaned out and then filled with wounded men. The lean-to addition was built after 1871 and housed a post office and country store, and later additions gave the building its present appearance.
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