Grace Church, Plymouth, is in much better condition than I expected to find it, the enemy having put in it plain windows and pews. The only injury the church building sustained during the attack on Plymouth was from three shells, one passing through the spire, one through the roof, and the third destroying the casing of a window. Much credit is due two Communicants of the church, Miss Kate Harrison and Mrs. R. S. Goelet, for having kept together and instructed the Catechumens of the Parish. I have felt greatly for those of the Parish who have for nearly two years been deprived of the services of the Church.

(Source: The Rev. T. B. Haughton, Report of Chaplain 50th Regt N. C. T., 1864 Journal of Convention, p. 42)