We had a refreshing rain last night. Governor Stone of Iowa
arrived at the hospital this morning, having come from the front, with an order
from General Sherman granting a thirty-day furlough to the sick and wounded
from the Iowa regiments here in the hospital. Those able for duty are to be
sent to the front. News came from the front that the Iowa Brigade was badly cut
to pieces in the battle of the 22d of July. Many of them were taken prisoners,
including almost all of the Sixteenth Regiment. Among the killed are the major
of the Thirteenth and the lieutenant colonel of the Fifteenth.1
There is no news from General Grant's army.
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1 Later I learned that while the
brigade's loss was great, yet Company E's loss was light. By a flank movement
the brigade advanced a short distance upon Atlanta. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 208
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