Sunday, June 21, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, August 31, 1864

The same old thing over again. Nothing new from the front.1 The sick and also the attendants here in the hospital were mustered for pay today. This is muster day throughout the entire army.
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1 Crocker's Iowa Brigade at this time was down at Jonesboro, below Atlanta, stationed on the Atlanta & Montgomery Railroad, which was one of the main roads running into Atlanta from the South. The losses in the brigade while there, were small. — A. G. D.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 212-3

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