Have had a week of very pleasant weather. Our store of
supplies here is small, as the army is to evacuate the place as soon as
possible.1
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1 This proved to be my last Sunday at Rome,
Georgia, for which I was very thankful. While there I saw more sick and wounded
men than I ever wish to see again. While I was a convalescent working among the
sick, giving out different kinds of medicine to forty or fifty men, I was under great
responsibility, and it cost me many a night's sleep and rest. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 215
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