From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/3/1864, p.1, c 6

A Church Burnt. – On last Sunday week at night, some sacrilegious incendiary applied the torch to the Brook Church, in Henrico county, about four miles from this city, and before the neighbors could assemble on the ground it was entirely destroyed. Since the war this noted old place of worship has served for other purposes that to hold divine exercises in. At one time it was used as a hospital for Yankee wounded, and on several occasions our own troops have been quartered there.

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