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People on their way to worship at Sudley Church encountered thousands of Federal soldiers marching south on Sudley Road, and within minutes gunfire sounded from the direction of Matthews Hill. As wounded men stumbled back behind the lines, Federal forces turned the church into a field hospital. Hospital stewards removed the pews and procured hay for bedding, while surgeons used the altar as an operating table. Upwards of 300 wounded soldiers were treated there. When the Union army retreated, six physicians remained behind to care for those who could not be moved, and Confederate cavalry captured them at the battle's end.
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