Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, September 5, 1864

Clear and quite pleasant. All things are quiet.¹

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¹ Men were leaving every day for the front and but few were brought to our hospitals, since the Union army was In possession of Atlanta, where hospitals were being established, while those at Rome were to be closed Just as soon as the sick there were able to go to the front.—A. G. D.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 213