I helped to move the field hospital into town this morning.
Most of the wounded able to go, have been sent home on thirty-day furloughs,
and some of the sick will also go soon. There is no news from Grant's army. I
received a letter this morning from Miss G–––. I received my knapsack and equipments
and bidding good-by, left for Atlanta, Georgia. There was a squad of one
hundred and seventy-five of us and we started at noon, going as far as
Kingston, where we lay awaiting a train from the North. We left Kingston soon
after dark.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 216
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