This morning was cool and pleasant. We started early and
marched five miles, going into camp a mile south of Atlanta. We tore up the
railroad tracks through Atlanta and burned all the public buildings. There was
a fine large station here, and a splendid engine house, but both were burned.
Very few citizens are left in Atlanta. The Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth
and Twentieth Army Corps are in bivouac in the vicinity of Atlanta. They are
concentrating here for the purpose of making a grand raid down South. We are to
take forty days' rations with us, consisting of hardtack, coffee, sugar, salt
and pepper, candles and soap, but we are to forage for meat as we march through
the country. All is quiet.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 228-9
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