Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, July 21, 1864

The same thing over and over, again and again.1 All the available rooms in town have now been turned into hospital wards. We have single, iron cots with good mattresses, and the sheets and pillows are kept nice and clean.
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1 On this day the Iowa Brigade made a charge on Bald Hill, in front of Atlanta. — A. G. D.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 206

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